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Coping During COVID-19
January 09, 2021
BLOG: We humans are complex creatures who can hold, Shiva-like, the simultaneous capacity for tremendous creation in one hand and woeful destruction in the other.
August 07, 2020
BLOG: The Physician Support Line launched by Dr. Mona Masood, a Philadelphia psychiatrist, started as an idea on social media, and now has more than 700 psychiatrist volunteers.
May 28, 2020
BLOG: We know that isolation is one of the drivers of suicide in doctors. But listening to how doctors are affected in their heroic work on the front lines of the COVID-19 epidemic gives me hope that barriers to openly sharing one’s personal distress are lowering.
May 07, 2020
BLOG: In the middle of a crisis, it is difficult to plan ahead, but that is what we must do now, not only for those impacted by this current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also to build inner resilience to care for those who may be impacted by a coming wave in the fall.
April 28, 2020
BLOG: Now is the time for us as mental health care providers to begin to prepare ways to reach out to our colleagues on the frontlines to make our services more easily available, starting with the assumption that they are traumatized until proven otherwise.
April 09, 2020
In this blog post, part of the "Coping During COVID-19" series, Psych Congress Steering Committee member Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC, says it will take time, introspection, and community to find meaning from the pandemic.
April 03, 2020
In this blog post, part of the "Coping During COVID-19" series, Psych Congress Steering Committee member Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC, writes about how people can navigate the grief they experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 27, 2020
BLOG: As a health care professional, I have watched the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic with alternating measures of horror, dread, fascination, frustration, and fear.
March 25, 2020
BLOG: Like me, you are probably noticing more and more in recent weeks that emotions, like viruses, seem to be spreading from person to person.
March 10, 2020
BLOG: I’ve been washing my hands a lot this week. Transiting through an airport, a task once done without thought, suddenly seems like tiptoeing through a minefield of COVID-19.