Stress and Anxiety: Disease in a Pandemic

Silent diseases.

The pandemic has locked us in our homes, but the lockdown has brought with it many silent diseases that are more powerful and powerful than the virus itself.

Such as anxiety and stress. Many homes today are victims of these two anomalies, which can be generated by patterns of behavior, social, emotional, physical or economic.

Many can be the causes of mismanagement of relationships or communication within home. One of the most common are economic problems, and in the background is the emotional plane, many families before the confinement at home did not live alone for long, now with the confinement protocol many homes have to live together, and the confinement showed the worst of each provoking discussions, lawsuits and contentions.

Stress at home

Stress is a feeling from which we can all suffer both physically and emotionally. Not necessarily can live or experience a single member, there are homes in which all members are victims of episodes of stress.

Stress at home is one of the sources that brings the most problems in our environment, be it work, study, etc. As someone who is in his privacy at home, he will also reflect it in the other areas where he operates.

Furious, frustrated and nervous

This is how many members of the household feel, that reaction is caused by situations that take us out of our comfort zone, uncomfortable, difficult, challenging situations that threaten their stability, emotional, mental, physical and economic.

If it is not possible to combat these episodes of stress at home, it ends up unleashing other types of more dangerous diseases, such as many cardiovascular accidents or heart attacks. When episodes of stress last for more than weeks or months, we are faced with a very dangerous chronic disease.

Therefore, it is necessary that as a family decide to stop, breathe and check what is causing these discomforts. It is important to remove what hurts us and seek help from specialists or alternatives that help us overcome the conflicts that generate stress.

Anxiety came to my home

Anxiety is that feeling of fear, worry, and insomnia. Sometimes it produces excessive sweating, tachycardia, palpitations, restlessness, paranoia.

All people suffering from anxiety spend their days battling a strong mental illness. They live in fear of what is to come, and they feel that with each step they take they will fall into the void.

In these times of pandemic, many families have been tied to anxiety, paralyzed from their homes, with fears of what may happen and this prevents them from advancing in other areas causing stress that brings diseases with it.

Symptoms of an anxious and stressed person

Constant, cyclical malaise, people who constantly suffer from diarrhea, fever, malaise, and even viruses.

The lack, or failure of memory is another important factor to take into account, if there are episodes of stress and anxiety at home. People who forget everything, do not know how to finish something and are overwhelmed because they leave everything unfinished.

Lack of energy and concentration is another important factor to study as well as fatigue and lack of sleep. People do not know what to associate it with, but in many cases it is due to episodes of stress and anxiety.

Feeling of constant danger, nervousness, the thought that something bad could happen, anyone in the family could die, recurring fear of dying or losing.

An accelerated variation in heart rate, excessive sweating, fear of the dark, heart and gastrointestinal problems, all products of what the person may be feeling in their inner world.

What to do if we are trapped in stress and anxiety?

Detect what is happening in your home, evaluate if there is chronic or acute stress and if it is accompanied by anxiety, then sit down and talk as a family, identifying your true enemy, which is this disease.

Seek professional help, a guide or psychologist who can guide you and help you get out of this situation.

Make a list of toxic thoughts and actions that fuel stress and anxiety and then cut it out of your daily routines, you need to start changing.

It is necessary to create healthy daily routines and habits, avoid pointillism, addiction to TV or telephones and establish work routines, communication, family interaction and rest, the most important thing is not to bring the body and mind to collapse, because that's where everything lies.