Two Ways Of Thinking And One Reality

Two Ways Of Thinking And One Reality

The list of insecurities that individuals are feeling in the middle of today’s societal challenges has grown in the past several months, and the mental problems that these kinds of insecurities provoke have expanded as well, with responses to the lack of certainty associated with the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its related disease, COVID-19. Furthering the problems, the brain’s two processes, called by some the feeling brain and the thinking brain, have run wild. Mistakes and errors have followed. In addition, some of those suffering through and recovering from a COVID-19 infection have experienced symptoms for months. Moreover, if the original SARS infections offer any guidelines, individuals could experience symptoms years after the disease has dissipated. Cultural losses have led to mental disturbances as well. Altogether, the virus and the other crises being experienced in society – from economic collapse to fights for social justice and from challenged social interactions to climate change – are making this a period of extreme social dislocations.

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