Parkzeit 2021-2 (EN)
Guest magazine Park Igls
Guest magazine Park Igls
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CRISIS LOSERS<br />
Four, seven and ten are the challenging ages of<br />
her beloved children. And her? She’s married,<br />
full of life, and wholly engaged in professional<br />
life. She refers to herself as both lucky and<br />
successful – in the prime of her life so to speak.<br />
This strong woman knows only of financial worries<br />
or existential fears from stories. She enjoys her<br />
freedom of choice when it comes to travel and<br />
holidays and knows that her future is carefree.<br />
But then the corona pandemic hits and her life as<br />
she knew it was turned upside down as things<br />
took a complete 180. What this would truly mean<br />
and with what force it would throw her off her<br />
usual track, she had no idea at that time. The ease<br />
with which she lived and mastered her life until<br />
now was suddenly gone.<br />
It was replaced instead with school closures,<br />
distance learning, curfews and restrictions as well<br />
as feelings of confinement or being locked up<br />
for many months. It was all suddenly too much,<br />
she affirms. In addition to her professional life,<br />
she has to function as a housewife, cook, teacher,<br />
cleaning lady and mum. Every day, seven days a<br />
week. Suddenly, she was unable to manage or to<br />
even get space.<br />
She was left alone with her tasks, she says, as her<br />
husband was of no help. Without distance and<br />
her usual freedoms, she fell into a state of constant<br />
stress. And before long, sleeping disorders, violent<br />
migraine attacks, exhaustion, anxiety disorders<br />
and panic attacks followed. These are typical<br />
reactions to severe stress and adjustment<br />
disorders. Anxiety and depressive disorders were<br />
diagnosed later. Accepting help never came easy<br />
for her. She’s the type of person who loves to help<br />
others, but too often forgets about herself in the<br />
process. Because she couldn't get going on her<br />
own and the pressure of suffering was too high,<br />
she sought psychological help. Fortunately, such<br />
help was available. And she accepted it. “I'm a crisis<br />
loser,” she says, “but I am fighting my way out of it.<br />
It will make me more resilient and bring back my<br />
quality of life.”<br />
close communication, distance for unfamiliarity.<br />
Everyone knows this instinctively. Just imagine the<br />
following greeting situations: a particularly intimate<br />
hug from your best friend whom you haven't seen<br />
for a long time or a handshake to greet a new<br />
business contact. Such gestures make all the<br />
difference."<br />
WHY DO WE LIKE HUGGING SO MUCH?<br />
"Closeness is a part of our lives from birth. I'll<br />
even go so far as to say proximity is vital to our<br />
survival. Ideally, when we are held, we feel safety,<br />
affection, perhaps love, comfort or trust.<br />
Everything we like to feel," says Thomas Blasbichler.<br />
Are we going to forgo hugging? "Never!"<br />
“Closeness is<br />
part of our lives<br />
from birth”<br />
Breathing<br />
From the moment we first cry<br />
when we are born to the often quoted<br />
very "last breath": Breathing<br />
is something we do throughout<br />
our whole lives.<br />
Thomas Blasbichler (MA)<br />
Clinical and health psychologist, sports psychologist,<br />
specialist in prevention, coach<br />
10<br />
GIVE ME A HUG!<br />
BREATHING 11