Description: How are you doing with social isolation? Perhaps you are too busy juggling work and children and relationships gone virtual or perhaps you are bored to tears with no new Netflix options and no live sports to watch. Have you thought about the similarities between your current situation and solitary confinement (well, with family… Read more »
Posts By: Mike Boyes
Psychology and Covid-19: There IS a Manual for This!
Description: Ask people how they are seeing the world around them these days as they deal with or do not deal so well with the social, isolation imposed due to the coronavirus and most will say something like weird, surreal, strange, or odd. These perspectives arise for the large extent to which usually or typical… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: Pandemic Dreaming?
Description: What sorts of dreams are you having these days? Ask your friends in your next Zoom chat what their dreams have been like lately as we are holed up doing our bit to flatten the Covid-19 curve and you will likely find that many people are dreaming more and are having more vivid and… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: A Mental Health Check-up
Description: If you have needed one recently you will have discovered that getting a medical check-up or even just getting an ongoing prescription renewed in these Covid-19 times can be a challenging, virtual, process. That is the case even with large scale health care systems (universal or not) already in place. Now considering that we… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: Breaking Psychological Research and Advice
Description: In recent weeks I have been blogging about and linking to articles about the Psychology of Covid-19. I will likely continue to do so as there is a lot of Psychology popping up in our current experience. As a teaching Psychologist and Psychology textbook author I believe strongly that paying attention to what Psychological… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: When We Did Not Know We Had the Rugs That Were Yanked
Description: I am sure you have heard the phrase “having the rug pulled out from under you,” before. Interpreted literally, it obviously means having the very thing you are standing on violently shifted from under you, typically with catastrophic results. The “magic” act of whipping a table clothe out from under a fully set table… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: Stress and Disorder (Depression)
Description: We (well, the media) have largely been discussing the Covid-19 pandemic is terms of physical demands and consequences and while that makes sense given that its origins are viral (literally not virtually). One of the consequences of this focus is that, even in countries with socialized medicine programs (e.g., Canada), when we mobilize the… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: Zoom Fatigue
Description: Have you used Zoom or one of the other virtual meeting platforms for the first time recently? How did you find the experience? For many of us such meeting ARE new experiences. We went from meetings happening in-person and face-to-face to playing our part in a CBC or CNN interview/presentation. You know the ones… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: How is This Changing Us Psychologically?
Description: Did you see those news videos of interviews with young adults partying on or near beaches during spring break and expressing disdainful disregard to distancing and other Covid-19 mitigation efforts? If you did, how did the statement made in the interviews make you feel? Anger? Disgust? If so, you were actually experiencing symptoms of… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: Talking to Kids
Description: How do you talk to a child about …. (enter name of issue/event here). How would you answer that question if the blank were filled in with Covid-19? If you have taken a course or course section on child psychology (or even if not) think about what should go into an answer to that… Read more »
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