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(Hard!) Lessons I learned from being locked down in China for 2 months that I hope might help you
I wrote this for my friends and family but I hope this can help others too
I'm relieved to say that China is now over the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak with life returning to relative normality. I am still teaching online, but the stores are open again and there's more people out and about smiling, interacting, and going about their business. For the first time in months, I am feeling happy, healthy and confident about my future in this country.
However, I see that what I have been experiencing for the past two months is now steadily being repeated around the world and it's causing a creeping panic. I'm not one for false positivisms. I can't say it's going to get better because to each their own. However I do want to root YOU on as you try to pull through this situation. I've been there, it sucks, and it might suck for a while. All that said, here are some (hard!) lessons I learned over from being locked down in China for 2 months that I hope might help you.
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Don’t internalize your feelings, find social support and vent! I’m going to be real. Cabin fever is one hell of a ride. Yes, I was scared of the coronavirus but the situation also left me feeling frustrated, powerless, hopeless, bored, paranoid, restless, anxious, angry, apathetic, isolated, claustrophobic, misunderstood, and depressed for weeks on end. Reach out to your friends and family, use SAFE online support message boards like Big White Wall, or call crisis hotlines like Lifeline. Schedule calls with friends and family so you can look forward to certain days when you know you can hear from them. Don’t let those feelings brew up in side of you because stress CAN affect your immune system.
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Focus on achieving small daily tasks for yourself. For me, the days began to blur together and sometimes I felt like there was no end in sight. Have daily routine tasks, but also add variety to them. Try new exercises, cook healthy and different recipes, or play mentally stimulating games (crosswords, board games). You won’t be feeling good about your situation, but at least you can feel good about yourself.
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Limit your daily coronavirus media intake. You don’t need to know every single thing about the coronavirus. Step away from Twitter, Reddit, YouTube. Learn how to protect yourself (CDC), learn about the most important updates concerning your local area, but just stop obsessing about the latest theory.
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And speaking of obsessing, chill out about the toilet paper! 75% of the world doesn’t use it anyways. Filipinos use a bucket; the Japanese use a bidet. For perspective, I haven't seen a shortage of TP in China yet. Unless you get diarrhea or the sniffles during this, YOU DON’T NEED THAT MUCH TOILET PAPER.
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Fight the chaos with compassion. Did you miss out on buying hand sanitizer/Clorox wipes/Lysol spray/masks? That's okay because once you're stuck inside you won't be needing it anyways. Don't invite people over and clean your basic household mess with vinegar. Make yourself feel good and donate whatever excess supplies you're hoarding to shelters, the immunocompromised, or people who are working in public settings. You're just stuck at home, not surviving the apocalypse.
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You don’t need TP, but you DO need food Don’t rely on fast food, eating out, or delivery services. Eventually the restaurants will close and worrying if your ordered meal is contaminated is no fun. While your neighbors are on the hunt for toilet paper, start stocking up your freezer and pantry! Buy in bulk, because let’s be real – you don’t want to go back to grocery store for a long time. Please practice social distancing! See a related post for some of the meals I made and ingredients I used that lasted me this time.
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Accept your limitations and ask for medication. Every person is wired differently and sometimes your brain has a way of taking over – no matter what you do to help yourself. Please know it is perfectly normal to ask for antidepressant/anxiety medication. Everyone is looking for a vaccine for coronavirus, but in the meantime, let’s not forget depression is a disease too which CAN BE TREATED. Despite having done my MSc in this area, I admittedly have spent far too much of this lock down suffering because I was too embarrassed and ashamed to ask for any sort of help. But what was the reaction from the old Chinese doctor when I finally did ask? He was proud. He said “90% of Chinese should be seeing a psychologist and be on medication right now, but they let saving face (stigma) stop them. You Americans, you know what you need and you seek it out. Taking care of your mental health is just as important as your physical health.”
各位都保重。
