The coronavirus has brought to our society a human behaviour globalizado unprecedented near. It is a problematic serious that does not have to be taken to light and follow all the indications of the sanitary and governmental authorities to achieve control the pandemia of the COVID-19. The common social responsibility and solidaria is more necessary that never to put him brake, all together.
The social alarm that has generated all over the world is unfounded largely because they prevail the emotion to the reason by what the people make irrational behaviours in situations when what more needs is the calm, the serenity and the coherence in our actions. All this has a name of emotion: fear.
The fear is the emotion produced by a present and imminent danger associated generally to the stimulus that generates it. The fear is an adaptative reaction of our organism that prepares us to give answers and solutions to a problem that presents us . However, when the problem are not able to assimilate it of direct way, can not it see, neither feel, like sucede with a microscopic virus, can generate a big uncertainty that exceed the optimum levels of fear creating states of panic and anxiety that can be alarming and desadaptativos that can arrive even to paralyse us.
Unfortunately, this is sucediendo in some groups of population that desbordan to day of today the supermarkets of Spain in search of provisions influenciados by the unfounded fear in a lot of occasions by the sobreinformación or the bad information that the media move or misunderstands . The daily influence of the media on the population is to day of today one of the tools that badly used can collapse a society.
This remembers me to the famous message of the War of the Worlds launched by the famous actor and director Orson Welles in 1938 when through the radio narrated of fictitious form an invasion alien that unchain the collective hysteria in all the United States of America. All was false, but there were a lot of people that believed it. Therefore it is so important to inform only of official sources, concern to contrast the news and avoid the sobreinformación to keep the calm.
The coronavirus do not see it, do not know where is, save in some way if it has touched you suffer it closely, by what our behaviours base in the uncertainty that this generates. The fear is an emotion that inside his spectrum incluye other secondary emotionss like the anxiety, the fear, the worry, the consternation, the restlessness, the uncertainty, the anxiety, the fright or the own terror.
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All these emotions carried to the extreme can give place to phobia and situations of panic that can go back in ours against and in the one of the people that surrounds us. We remember the difference between fear and anxiety, the fear produces in front of a real present situation and the anxiety does reference to an anticipación of a future fear, uncertain, stranger and unpredictable.
I can not know where it is the virus but yes puedor know where am I. #QuédateEnCasa
Well, to reduce our state of anxiety because of this uncertainty that can produce us this global situation the best are the preventive measures, as the one who are making these days in Spain of social isolation. I can not know where it is the virus but yes can know where am I. Therefore, the isolation and the prevention is the best way to reduce our anxiety, our irrational fear because this yes that we are able to control it by us same.
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Could do a long list of recommendations for these days of social isolation because of the pandemia of the COVID-19, but these are at least 5 basic recommendations based in the councils of the Asociación American of Psychology (APA):
This historical crisis will surpass , is responsibility of all together and joined, although this occasion was from the distance.
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Bibliography:
American Psychological Association. (2020). Five Ways to View Coverage of the Coronavirus. http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/pandemics
Fernández-Abascal, And., Jimenez Sánchez M.P., Martín Díaz, M.D. (2003). Emotion and Motivation: the human adaptation.