(Lifestyle) Tips for emotional management of having several patients with COVID-19 at home

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If you receive the news that you are positive for COVID-19, it is very important to remain calm and follow the recommendations of the doctors.

The sensitive rebound in positive cases with COVID-19 in the first two weeks of January is no secret to anyone, especially since it is a highly contagious variant.

Data from the Ministry of Health reveal that the second week of January registered 26,672 cases, while the first week registered 14,628 cases. This represents an increase of 82.3% from week to week, with an average of 3,810 cases daily.

Precisely because of the ease of contagion that is currently occurring with Ómicron, there are households with several members infected simultaneously, which can add overload, stress and great emotional difficulties to the coexistence of those who are infected versus those who are not yet and who They live with them, either because of the extra workload or because of the fear of getting infected, and this could impact the quality of family relationships.

People who are in isolation can be vulnerable to exacerbating emotional complications and therefore experience anxiety or depression due to stress and uncertainty of not knowing how the virus will affect them.

Even people without the virus can also experience anguish, stress and anxiety, which in turn can affect the emotional health of people without mental disorders or exacerbate the symptoms of those who have pre-existing mental disorders.

Tips to better handle the situation
Next, the psychologist Álvaro Solano Monge, director of Psychology at the Fidélitas University, offers some advice to ensure a more favorable handling of the situation.

1. If you receive the news that you are positive for COVID-19, it is very important to remain calm and follow the recommendations of the doctors, this will help us reduce the levels of anxiety and stress that can be generated.

2. Take care of your physical health by eating healthy, emotional health must be taken care of by taking advantage of the time of isolation to read or carry out personal activities that relax you or are to your liking.

3. If a person or several members of the family are positive for COVID-19 and live in the same roof, they must remain calm and follow the medical recommendations of isolation, distance, mask inside the house to protect others and the constant hand washing and cleaning of contact areas.

4. Find out the right way from reliable sources. Avoid the information that is generated in social networks or WhatsApp groups.

5. If a person is in isolation, it is recommended that they be able to maintain their social ties through virtuality, that they have elements that allow them to have recreation through reading, music or television.

6. Avoid any irrational negative thinking that may be generated by bad information.

7. Avoid negative ideas of self-destruction, because this type of thinking only increases the levels of anxiety and stress in people. Try doing breathing exercises, listening to self-help audio books, or listening to meditations that help you relax and stay calm.

8. If the circumstance allows it, the rest of the family that is not sick can share activities such as board games, a movie that generates positive thoughts.

9. Avoid conversing with people who have a different idea than you regarding the pandemic and related topics. It is not healthy to enter into conflict with people who antagonize our convictions, since they generate more emotional imbalance in us.

10. See the times of isolation as an opportunity to take up new hobbies or activities that due to lack of time you had not been able to do.

Remember that the 9-1-1 Emergency System platform provides psychological care for people who require it.

Students of the Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health of the Fidélitas University, who are psychologists duly incorporated into the Professional Association (CPPCR), provide their support on said platform thanks to the cooperation agreement with the Psychological Support Office of the Ministry of Health.
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