Coronavirus Guilt + Why It's Different

06/03/20 • 27 min

How To Cope - with Becky Howard + Lucy Clyde

Why is guilt something we're feeling over the coronavirus pandemic? After all - unless we've taken a trip up to Durham recently, we've probably done nothing wrong.

But in fact, feeling guilty is a totally normal response.

Whether it's guilt over NOT having the worst pandemic experience ever, guilt over social media or guilt over whether we should really buy that packet of salt and vinegar crisps or not (you'll have to listen to find out what that's all about) - it's a feeling that's shifted shape during these strange times. Writer Becky Howard and psychologist Lucy Clyde explore guilt and what we can do about this confusing emotion.

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Why is guilt something we're feeling over the coronavirus pandemic? After all - unless we've taken a trip up to Durham recently, we've probably done nothing wrong.

But in fact, feeling guilty is a totally normal response.

Thanks for listening and follow us on Twitter @cope_podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

Why Uncertainty Is Exhausting - And How We Fill The Void

Feeling worried and stressed about our uncertain future, now that we're living through a global pandemic?

Yep, us too. Because does ANYONE know what our world will look like in six weeks' time? Let alone six months' time? No matter what those in charge claim, no-one really knows what's coming after Covid-19.

When the only thing we can be confidently certain about is what we're eating next, uncertainty is everywhere. And when us humans have too much uncertainty to face, we start to fill this void with our own projections - which can be pretty wild.

In this episode, Becky Howard and psychologist Lucy Clyde explore the destabilising nature of uncertainty that the coronavirus pandemic has landed on us all. Why is it so hard for us to cope with? Why do some of us decide that a military coup is the next logical step? And what is there that we can actually be hopeful about?

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Next Episode

Post-Lockdown Anxiety

Post-lockdown anxiety is here: with loads of us feeling anxious, stressed and worried about post-Covid life. We want to go out, but we also DON'T want to go out. What's going on?

We thought when we were finally allowed out from our homes, that we'd all be skipping down the street, gaily singing 'free at last!' (or was that just us?)

But in fact, dealing with a post-lockdown world is WAY more complicated than returning to our pre-Covid lives. Many of us are super stressed about the prospect of returning to an office, going on public transport, or sending our kids back to school. Have we all developed Stockholm syndrom for coronavirus?

In this ep, writer Becky Howard and psychotherapist Lucy Clyde delve deep into the roots of post-lockdown anxiety - and discover why it's all about lack of control, developing boundaries and exploring just how the hell we're supposed to be polite now with the new post-Covid etiquette disrupting everything we used to know.

Also, why Mary Poppins is what Becky wants more than ANYTHING right now...

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