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Isolation: How Do We Handle it?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jul 6, 2020 | Replies (302)Comment receiving replies
I have never felt less productive than during the outbreak.
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Yea Absolutely Routines do help me a lot. If it wasn't for exercising I would loose my mind for sure. That and good food.
@nickhubchak Welcome to Mayo Connect! We are a very diverse group of people from all over the world, offering support and sharing experiences with others. What brings you to Mayo Connect, how did you hear about us? I would invite you to visit the discussion currently going on here on Mayo Connect https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/covid-19/ and more specifically within this group, the discussion on isolation https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/isolation-how-do-we-handle-it/
You may well find that there are many who can offer you some solutions to what you are feeling, and we welcome anyone's thoughts on how to handle the times we are in.
@colleenyoung, would you please move this discussion over to the isolation discussion under the COVID-19 group, please?
Ginger
Hi @nickhubchak, I add my welcome. As @gingerw suggested I have moved your message to this discussion about coping with isolation during these times of COVID-19. Click VIEW & REPLY in your email notification to be able to scroll through past posts and meet others.
Nick, have you had to change your work environment from an office to now working from home?
nickhubchak: don't feel alone about being less productive! I have worked out of my house for 30 years and I feel less productive! Thinking about it, it may be because the customers and vendors I usually deal with are either shut down or in the case of some of my vendors are working on shorter schedules. Some work three days a week, or some have Fridays off. All kinds of different schedules.
I'm here in my office every day from 6 - 8 hours every day.
It's very hard to keep a positive additude!
I know nothing like this has ever happened in the last 73 years I've been around! I was not here during the GREAT DEPRESSION, I was here for the so called GREAT RESESION! It was nothing like this!
I just want to wake up and it all be gone!
My main complaint is the media keeps saying our Life will be totally DIFFERENT! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!?
Why can't we strat the engine again and we start going down the highway? You just adjust to what's in front of you AND DEAL WITH IT! Reminded of the Old saying "THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME"!
I JUST DON'T BUY INTO ALL THE FEAR!
Richard (aka Sundance)
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I am struggling at home with not having the same level of work duties to occupy my time, and video gets tiring after a while. Still, I wake up at the same hour, make my bed and get dressed as if for work, report to "work" online when I'm expected to be there -- routines are important. I try to get outside at least once a day for fresh air.