The Covid lockdown caused us to lose touch with our intuition, making it difficult for us to discern it from outside inputs and pressures.
Post-Covid, Management Has Changed Forever
Whatever one might think of the old-fashioned 9-to-5 grind at the workplace, it had one significant advantage for social animals like us: it required us to be together and to work together, face-to-face. Post-Covid, we have lost that.
A Trauma-Focused Approach to Addiction
The path to recovery is deeply personal and fraught with challenges, and it is best if you find assistance. Since addiction is so personal, for some people having an advocate outside their social circle can be transformative.
How Covid-19, Celebrities, and Algorithms Fuelled a Rise in Risky Drinking
I have many patients who tell me that they desperately want to be with people when they are alone, but when they are with people, they want to get away from them. We are social creatures, and the pandemic deeply disrupted our natural social abilities, leaving many people feeling painfully lonely.
Their situation is made much worse by their lack of confidence in their own social skills, and their inability to accept social interactions in all their messy, confusing, and chaotic glory.
Making this far worse is a single maladaptive coping mechanism: alcohol.
