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JOHN WHYTE: Hi, everyone.
I'm Dr. John Whyte, Chief
Medical Officer of WebMD.
For the past fewer months,
I've been talking to experts
astir COVID-19
and the effects
of the pandemic arsenic part
of our regular news
show, called Coronavirus
successful Context.
How tin we enactment safe
during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Wash hands, deterioration masks,
cleanable surfaces, enactment six feet
apart.
That's each true.
But it's lone focusing
connected our carnal health.
We request to instrumentality care
of ourselves
mentally and emotionally
arsenic well.
Arianna Huffington talked
astir the fearfulness of uncertainty
and however that causes america to double
down connected our atrocious habits.
We're seeing intoxicant sales
and smoking rates skyrocket.
We're eating unhealthy foods
and experiencing
coronavirus insomnia.
Her concealed to intelligence resilience
is microsteps--
tiny regular incremental steps
that extremity up
with steadfast behavior.
What are some
of these microsteps?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: So fto me
springiness you-- we person implicit 1,000.
JOHN WHYTE: OK.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: But I'll
springiness you my favorites erstwhile it
comes to intelligence health.
JOHN WHYTE: Sure.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON:
The archetypal 1 is, establish
a cutoff each day
erstwhile you halt consuming
coronavirus news.
JOHN WHYTE: [LAUGHS] Yes.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: I totally
get it--
that we privation to beryllium informed.
But consuming coronavirus news,
immoderate of which
is tragic and heartbreaking--
JOHN WHYTE: Yes.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: --just
earlier you spell to bed
is going to marque it harder
for you to sleep, harder for you
to spell backmost to slumber if you wake
up successful the mediate of the night.
And sleep
is foundational to our immunity
and to our intelligence health.
JOHN WHYTE: That's right.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: And fto me
springiness you different tiny one.
JOHN WHYTE: Mm-hmm.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Before you
spell to sleep, earlier you crook off
the lights, instrumentality your phone
and complaint it
extracurricular your bedroom.
JOHN WHYTE: Yeah.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Over
70% of the satellite wakes up,
and earlier they're afloat awake,
goes to their phone.
JOHN WHYTE: Yeah.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: And you
don't cognize what's there.
It tin beryllium something--
JOHN WHYTE: Right.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: --really
stressful.
So different microstep is take--
instrumentality 1 minute--
60 seconds-- to focus
consciously connected your breath,
to acceptable your intention
for the day, to retrieve what
you are grateful for, whatever
you want.
JOHN WHYTE: Sure.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: But you have
1 infinitesimal to almost, like,
enactment your limb around, prepare
yourself for what the day
brings, due to the fact that we don't know
what the time is going to bring.
JOHN WHYTE: That's right.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: And tin I
notation 1 other?
JOHN WHYTE: Sure.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Any clip you
are washing your hands,
retrieve 3 things you are
grateful for.
JOHN WHYTE: Oh.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Gratitude
changes the neural pathways
of the brain.
JOHN WHYTE: Yeah.
Tim Tebow shared this reminder--
that, let's not fto moments
of adversity specify us.
I asked him, however bash we stay
positive, recognizing that this
is not a twelvemonth immoderate of us
expected?
You person a lecturer wherever you
speech about, this twelvemonth whitethorn not
beryllium the twelvemonth you expected.
And that was done prior
to this year.
So clearly, this is not a year
that astir radical expected.
How bash you enactment positive
during these times?
TIM TEBOW: Yeah.
That's a truly bully question,
John.
You know, acknowledgment for asking.
I deliberation it's important.
I think-- I deliberation faith, hope,
and love, I deliberation encouragement
close now,
I deliberation having existent passion
and intent for things
are each things that I think
our nine needs
and, honestly, the satellite needs
close now.
And for me, I deliberation however I would
privation to encourage
each the listeners is to say
that this mightiness beryllium a setback
and it mightiness beryllium a sound down
and it mightiness beryllium a hurdle
and it mightiness be
disappointing for you,
but successful each 1 of those ways,
it's an accidental for you
to learn, for you to grow,
for you to adapt,
and for you to beryllium better.
And arsenic the communicative goes,
successful the mid-1600s,
successful a pandemic similar this,
Isaac Newton came up
with gravitational theory.
JOHN WHYTE: I did not cognize that.
TIM TEBOW: And helium didn't, you
know, hold around, saying,
there's thing I tin bash right
now.
It was an accidental wherever you
tin person purpose, passion,
and meaning.
Right?
You mightiness not beryllium capable to bash what
you privation to do, but it doesn't
mean that you can't bash anything.
Right?
So I privation to promote people
that you mightiness not
beryllium capable to question the world
close now, but you tin help
your neighbor.
You tin find something
that you're passionate about.
And you tin enactment connected it.
You tin physique it.
You tin marque a difference.
You tin bash something.
JOHN WHYTE: So present we have
a caller normal.
And that's going to instrumentality time
to set to.
Doctors Lieberman and Mayer
from the Department
of Psychiatry astatine Columbia
explained that if you're having
a hard clip adjusting,
scope retired to household and friends.
Talk to your doctor.
Seek help.
I wanted to inquire some of you,
what tips would you springiness people
oregon caregivers to admit when
idiosyncratic needs help?
That's not ever that easy
for immoderate folks.
They deliberation they're doing OK,
oregon they deliberation everyone other is
successful the aforesaid place.
LAUREL MAYER: I think, if you
person the question,
bash I request help, scope out.
Just having that question says,
possibly you do.
So ask.
JEFFREY LIEBERMAN: I think
that everybody benefits from it.
When you say, needs help,
you know, we're running
a marathon, and the occupation is
that we can't gait ourselves,
due to the fact that we don't know
if the marathon is going to be
a fractional marathon
oregon a afloat marathon
oregon an Ironman marathon.
And everybody, arsenic Laurel said,
needs help.
To beryllium COVID safe,
we person to beryllium unneurotic safe,
due to the fact that we're not going to be
capable to bash it alone,
due to the fact that everything is
interdependent.
JOHN WHYTE: So wherever should
radical spell for help?
JEFFREY LIEBERMAN: Well, people
should beryllium capable to access
intelligence wellness done the health
attraction strategy that's available.
So if you person a superior care
doctor, you tin start
with that person.
Say, look, I truly request to see
a psychiatrist oregon psychologist.
Is determination idiosyncratic you could
notation maine to?
In the lack of that,
you look connected the website
of the local, particularly
academic, aesculapian centers.
And they should person means
to telephone a hotline to archetypal get
screened and past referred.
Reach retired to friends,
and pass with friends,
due to the fact that that quality to connect
with individuals, particularly
those that are capable to be
supportive to you,
tin beryllium adjuvant successful and of itself.
But, arsenic Laurel said, don't wait.
Don't hesitate.
Err connected the broadside of reaching out
alternatively than waiting until you
think, it gets truthful bad,
I person to scope out.
JOHN WHYTE: Our extremity astatine WebMD
is to supply you the best
information
and assistance you manage
your physical, emotional, and
intelligence health.
I admit you taking the time
to watch.
And I look forward
to your feedback.
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