Victorians are are struggling to use strategies that worked in past lockdowns, according to psychologists. covid19 melbournelockdown
Reports of increased family conflict and bullying and harassment at work spiked significantly in the first week of Victoria’s fourth lockdown, as one of Australia’s biggest providers of corporate, government and private psychologists noted a huge increase in demand., said many of the company’s 320 psychologists around the country had been “pulled in to assist in Victoria” after an 82 per cent increase in demand for support between Thursday, May 27, and Thursday, June 3.
“What’s interesting is people aren’t picking up on strategies they applied last year, they really feel like they’re just going back to ground zero,” said Ms Andrews. The group, whose clients include large employers in government departments and private industry sectors including retail, hospitality, manufacturing and professional services, received 200 extra patients referred in the first week of lockdown.
Ms Cavenett urged people to acknowledge how they were feeling without being self-critical or judging themselves, and attempt to make a schedule, eat, exercise and sleep properly and “focus on the day in front of you”. “It’s the whole uncertainty thing and there is frustration about how this whole thing came about in the first place ... people feel completely overwhelmed.”
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