Coronavirus - Emotional Coping

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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How should we feel about COVID-19? Are we freaking out? Should be more concerned? Dr. Kirk Honda provides a system for analyzing and coping with our emotions.

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0:00.0	Hey deserving listeners, today's episode is about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
0:06.0	You know, many people are afraid of what's happening right now.
0:10.4	It's in the news constantly, It's considered a global pandemic.
0:15.0	Thousands have died so far.
0:17.0	Experts estimate as much as 70% of the human population will be infected eventually.
0:25.0	Maybe it won't go that high, but some people are saying that.
0:29.0	Some experts are also predicting that millions of people will die around the world.
0:35.0	Governments are taking drastic actions. Schools are closing, like my university closed recently.
0:42.0	Seattle shut down all the public schools. There are
0:47.0	countries that are shutting down entirely. There are travel bans. Large gatherings in the United States are being
0:55.2	cancelled like Emerald City Comic-Con which my nonprofit was going to attend, but we're not going anymore.
1:04.0	South by Southwest, my friend was going to play there and that's been cancelled.
1:09.2	The NBA has canceled all their games and many other cancellations. The Olympics might get
1:13.4	canceled. The stock market has crashed. The oil prices have plummeted. Lots of
1:20.2	people have lost a lot of money in their retirement funds. of people are worried. They're not leaving the house. In Seattle, traffic has never been this empty. Some of my favorite restaurants in Seattle are closing
1:34.7	because no one is going out to eat. I know that pales a comparison to people dying
1:39.2	but still everyone's buying all the hand sanitizer and the toilet paper and so on from you know there there's no
1:46.3	toilet paper in the stores and no hand sanitizer in some areas are running out of medical supplies and I just read that Tom Hanks and his wife have tested positive for
1:57.1	positive for COVID-19. You know in some ways we've never seen anything like this before but in other ways it's
2:06.4	reminiscent of things in the past like the HIV panic of the 80s this sort of thing
2:11.9	but you know since the internet age I think this is the of the 80s, this sort of thing.
2:12.6	But you know, since the internet age, I think this is the first time we've seen something
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