Psychosomatic COVID

Sidney Martin (G8)

Opinion

Published Issue 6 2021-2022

About two years ago, COVID erupted and students around the world were no longer going to school. For many people, Covid was the message that the world was ending and at one point, everyone would end up having COVID-19. People were hysterically buying toilet paper, flour, and yeast, wiping clean the shelves of every superstore.

At that point it became common for one to imagine that every health symptom outside the realm of normalcy meant that we had COVID. But, really when you think about it, your mind was really making assumptions about what would happen from this virus.

The COVID ‘rage’ (including psychosomatic elements) started at the beginning of Spring Break. The main impacts of Psychosomatic COVID-19 were:

1. Thought you had COVID-19 right when you heard about it

2. Thinking that you were sneezing or coughing too much

3. Sanitizing everything that came from outside of your house (etc. Grocery bags)

4. Loading up on toilet paper, yeast, flour, and completely wiping the shelves at every grocery store

As the COVID ‘rage’ started to calm down and everyone got used to the new normal, COVID was thankfully going down and fewer deaths were occurring. This made people assume that COVID was gone and we could go back to school, go to the gym again, go to work. But then the second wave of COVID hit.

The listed steps were repeated. The emotional experience was repeated again.

Currently, there are no more ‘rages’ going on and everyone (almost everyone) is following the restrictions.

If history has taught us anything, it is that your mind can cause serious problems and suspicions even when they are not always the real case. Stay safe.