Apr 21, 2020
For many, May is going to be their second month in quarantine, for some, even a third. And what we’ll see, much like with the gradual spread of the virus, will be the growing effect of national lockdowns on people’s mental health. I’m no psychologist, and I can’t...
Apr 14, 2020
Most people under lockdown, despite having an abundance of time to spare, are finding themselves able to do fewer things than before. The world has granted us with outrageous amounts of free time, the kind—I believe—people always meant when they said they would have...
Apr 9, 2020
Do you know what happens when you google “how to deal with cabin fever”? You find articles telling you to go outside, see your family, go out with your friends, connect with nature, or redecorate your home. You have to wonder, don’t you, would anyone able to do these...
Apr 8, 2020
In her famous TED Talk, Amy Cuddy speaks about how by embracing her fake it till you make it attitude, she managed to achieve academic success despite her disabilities. Since I first heard it, that “fake it till you make it” motto stuck with me for years. It helped me...
Apr 6, 2020
Everyone’s on edge. I am too. Because how much bad news can a person take? Honestly. Nowadays, it feels like I can’t even open the fridge without hearing about new infections and flattening the curve. And with how much I’m eating recently, I have more than one curve...
Apr 2, 2020
What kind of writing advice would you give yourself? And I’m not talking about “write more” or “write more regularly” kind of advice, but of the truly personal, hard-hitting variety. I recently did an exercise where I wrote down precisely that: twenty-one pieces of...
