How To Cope - with Becky Howard + Lucy Clyde - Loneliness - And The Problems With Digital 'Diet Friendship'

Loneliness - And The Problems With Digital 'Diet Friendship'

05/19/20 • 24 min

How To Cope - with Becky Howard + Lucy Clyde

We’re all feeling SO lonely during this pandemic, isolated from our pre-Covid lives – and we’re not afraid to talk about it.

Because, yes it’s possible to be really lonely even if you’re in a house full of people on lockdown. Becky + Lucy explore the difference between loneliness and solitude, and whether going through this corona-coaster is easier for introverts or extroverts (and really, what the hell is an ambivert?)

We also talk about the issue of digital connection and why it’s so exhausting and unsatisfying to be on all those Zoom meetings. It’s the diet version of in-person full-fat friendship – but why? We’ve got the answers!

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We’re all feeling SO lonely during this pandemic, isolated from our pre-Covid lives – and we’re not afraid to talk about it.

Please like, subscribe and follow us on Twitter @cope_podcast.

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

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Trailer - How To Cope

Welcome to How to Cope! A new podcast exploring just how we can best manage our mental health, when the global coronavirus crisis is doing its very best to pummel our sanity into a pulp.

Each episode, writer Becky Howard and psychotherapist Lucy Clyde will explore one element of the overwhelming amount of changes we're all having to deal with - and help us all find our way through this the best way we can.

From relationship challenges to mood swings, loneliness to parenting crises, Covid-19 is having all sorts of unprecedented impacts on our lives. So we're going to talk, share advice, and laugh our way through this, from a socially-responsible distance of at least 2 metres, of course.

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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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