An Introvert’s Perspective of Coping
Unexpectedly, the world is thrown into a pandemic chaos when 2020 roared in. I read online of a quote shared: “We have to apologise to 2019 for what we said about it.” That rang true. Before 2020, 2019 seemed to be a trying year for many of my clients. A client had shared about troubles in his romantic relationship, business and family and how he was looking to a better year this year in our last session in 2019. He was definitely having a different mind about it now.
Many countries had gone into lockdown or emergency states to “flatten the curve” or “break the chain” of contagion of the coronavirus. For half to two-third of the population who are extroverts, quarantine at home might feel like they are being driven out of their minds. They might be wondering: how had the introverts been living it?
Iris (*name change) read the news and articles daily from around the world about the virus. When she read, she also pondered upon it. Did she do anything after reading news? Yes and no. Iris autoimmune compromised, had young and elderly in her family and she reminded herself she was not the only person with vulnerabilities. First thing she did, was to arrange to celebrate her mother’s birthday at home instead of at a new restaurant as planned. It was still fun, they bought several pretty small cakes instead of a whole cake which became the topic of the evening.
