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Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2496" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c" target="_blank"><strong>Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful - Elemental</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life</strong></p><p></p><p>It was the end of the world as we knew it, and I felt fine. That’s almost exactly what I told my psychiatrist at my March 16 appointment, a few days after our children’s school district extended spring break because of the <a href="https://elemental.medium.com/theres-still-some-hope-for-the-u-s-this-fall-9b9527e9cb97" target="_blank">coronavirus</a>. I said the same at my April 27 appointment, several weeks after our state’s stay-at-home order.</p><p></p><p>Yes, it was exhausting having a kindergartener and fourth grader doing impromptu distance learning while I was barely keeping up with work. And it was frustrating to be <a href="https://elemental.medium.com/starting-to-slip-up-your-brain-is-entering-quarantine-fatigue-aa89a286df52" target="_blank">stuck home nonstop</a>, scrambling to get in grocery delivery orders before slots filled up, and tracking down toilet paper. But I was still doing well because I thrive in high-stress emergency situations. It’s exhilarating for my ADHD brain. As just one example, when my husband and I were stranded in Peru during an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that killed thousands, we walked around with a first aid kit helping who we could and tracking down water and food. Then I went out with my camera to document the devastation as a photojournalist and interview Peruvians in my broken Spanish for my hometown paper.</p><p></p><p>In those early months, I, along with most of the rest of the country, was using “surge capacity” to operate, as <a href="http://icd.umn.edu/people/amasten/" target="_blank">Ann Masten, PhD</a>, a psychologist and professor of child development at the University of Minnesota, calls it. Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different — the disaster itself stretches out indefinitely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2496, member: 1"] [URL='https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c'][B]Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful - Elemental[/B][/URL] [B]Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life[/B] It was the end of the world as we knew it, and I felt fine. That’s almost exactly what I told my psychiatrist at my March 16 appointment, a few days after our children’s school district extended spring break because of the [URL='https://elemental.medium.com/theres-still-some-hope-for-the-u-s-this-fall-9b9527e9cb97']coronavirus[/URL]. I said the same at my April 27 appointment, several weeks after our state’s stay-at-home order. Yes, it was exhausting having a kindergartener and fourth grader doing impromptu distance learning while I was barely keeping up with work. And it was frustrating to be [URL='https://elemental.medium.com/starting-to-slip-up-your-brain-is-entering-quarantine-fatigue-aa89a286df52']stuck home nonstop[/URL], scrambling to get in grocery delivery orders before slots filled up, and tracking down toilet paper. But I was still doing well because I thrive in high-stress emergency situations. It’s exhilarating for my ADHD brain. As just one example, when my husband and I were stranded in Peru during an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that killed thousands, we walked around with a first aid kit helping who we could and tracking down water and food. Then I went out with my camera to document the devastation as a photojournalist and interview Peruvians in my broken Spanish for my hometown paper. In those early months, I, along with most of the rest of the country, was using “surge capacity” to operate, as [URL='http://icd.umn.edu/people/amasten/']Ann Masten, PhD[/URL], a psychologist and professor of child development at the University of Minnesota, calls it. Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different — the disaster itself stretches out indefinitely. [/QUOTE]
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