Is Your Quarantine Self-Care Oriented Outward or Inward?
Maybe you’re hyper-productive right now. Maybe you’re binge watching Disney movies. Doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s working.
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My Facebook feed these days seems evenly split between two types of people.
The people who are all like: I’m spending this quarantine leveling up my life.
And the people side-eye those people and have one word for them: Nope.
I’ve never gone through anything like what we’re all going through now. I started to say ‘like pretty much everyone else alive,’ but of course that’s not true. I’m an extraordinarily privileged American who has lived with deep American-level poverty, but there are millions of human beings who suffer more than I can even fully imagine.
But, as an American, I have gone through the same really scary, collectively traumatic times that all Americans have gone through in twenty-first century.
Namely: 9/11 and the 2009 recession. So, I know a few things about myself and how I deal with crisis and trauma. I’ve got this theory brewing that the way we all cope is similar to being introverted or extraverted.