Since the COVID-19 pandemic has hit and has created a global health crisis, it had made a severe impact on how we communicate with our friends, families, or close ones. Pandemic has compelled people to stay at home and maintain the norms of social distancing and isolation.
The coronavirus pandemic has affected how we communicate and it has a severe impact on our daily life. For any effective relation, good communication is the key and if there is a void in communicating or not being able to express, it can damage the relationship.
Maintaining a connection or a bond with people is the inherent aspect of society. Humans seek out to communicate to ease their stress, share their feelings and experiences. Communicating and interaction make them feel lighter and more confident.
Long-Lasting Impact
To keep us safe and healthy, social distancing is important but social isolation is not safe and healthy for the long term.
Lockdown rules are easing all around the globe, but the after-effects of this lockdown and the pandemic will be long-lasting as more and more people will try to cope up with the volatile, uncertain, and new normal environment.
People who don’t identify themselves as “phone persons” may find this phase difficult than others who are comfortable in chatting in telecommunications. But in such hard times, there is no other way to keep our mental and physical health better than effective communication.
Sometimes we neglect and unsee the benefits of communication in our daily life, but a bad or miscommunication has the power to make or break relationships. Uncertain times like this have taught us to stay together and listen and understand one another, and bad communication can ruin our mental peace and health.
Other than communication, one thing that humans are currently missing is “touch” and the effect of the touch cannot be replaced through phone conversations.
When someone is in any kind of physical or emotional pain, the negativity associated with it can be eased or reduced if someone hugs them or hold their hands to make them feel okay.
Face to face communication helps to release a chemical hormone called “Cortisol”, which neutralizes the stress and relaxes the body and mind. And currently, as we’re not getting it, it is easier to feel stressed and can lead to long term mental diseases like depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, or weak immune system.
The constant lack of predictability like the thought of losing jobs, or if someone close gets sick is putting, more stress and creating paranoia in the human mind.
Face to face communication helps to release a chemical hormone called “Cortisol”, which neutralizes the stress and relaxes the body and mind. And currently, as we’re not getting it, it is easier to feel stressed and can lead to long term mental diseases like depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, or weak immune system.
The constant lack of predictability like the thought of losing jobs, or if someone close gets sick is putting, more stress and creating paranoia in the human mind.
Share and Care
No one knows when the pandemic will get over, so we need to look out for effective interaction and communication ways that’ll keep us safe and so help to reduce the gap that has been created due to the constant isolation.
Try to stay in touch with your close ones as much as possible, share your experiences, feelings, and thoughts whenever you get to interact. However, try to avoid mass gatherings and the crowd. Learn and try to adapt to new changes that are happening around the world and try to embrace those changes.
Try to do some creative works like gardening, painting, or writing a journal that will help to reduce the stress caused due to isolation. Don’t be hard on yourself and try to socialize following the rules of the new normal. Start to take control of things around you and make sure you follow a routine.
Whenever you’re feeling stressed or anxious, acknowledge that feeling and take your time to overcome it. Use the crisis to live in the moment and appreciate very little positive things happening with you. Realize that we are all in this pandemic together, fighting, and use that opportunity to encourage and inspire yourself.
With effective social distancing and maintain precautions we can approach and overcome these challenging times together, the only thing that we need is an open mind and courage.
Written by - Srijita Roy
Try to stay in touch with your close ones as much as possible, share your experiences, feelings, and thoughts whenever you get to interact. However, try to avoid mass gatherings and the crowd. Learn and try to adapt to new changes that are happening around the world and try to embrace those changes.
Try to do some creative works like gardening, painting, or writing a journal that will help to reduce the stress caused due to isolation. Don’t be hard on yourself and try to socialize following the rules of the new normal. Start to take control of things around you and make sure you follow a routine.
Whenever you’re feeling stressed or anxious, acknowledge that feeling and take your time to overcome it. Use the crisis to live in the moment and appreciate very little positive things happening with you. Realize that we are all in this pandemic together, fighting, and use that opportunity to encourage and inspire yourself.
With effective social distancing and maintain precautions we can approach and overcome these challenging times together, the only thing that we need is an open mind and courage.
Written by - Srijita Roy
Edited by - Rudransh Khurana
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