Dr. Maya Sarkisyan contemplates the feelings that the world is experiencing as we begin to think about re-entering society. Anxiety is most likely inevitable, but we will all be okay as we learn to live in the new normal.
It all came to me today – in a form of anxiety. But wait, I don’t have anxiety, I help people with their anxiety. My anxiety is a thing of the far gone and well-processed past. I have to know better. Nevertheless…
I started feeling anxious after completing my online application to be considered for the “Restart Business Grants Program.” There were so many questions to answer and documents to submit that I had a sinking feeling I have done something wrong, and as often happens, everything in my life I have ever considered I have done wrong, came to my mind. Thankfully there is not much!
Ending Social Distancing
I also imagined emerging from my semi-isolation and going out and about to dinners, parties, other businesses, to visit my friends, or to hang out on the beach. And I felt even more anxious. I know it’s not about fear because I am not really afraid of much anymore, it’s about the transition. The transition from one unknown to another unknown, with a lot of confusion around it.
