However, she noted that she believes the mental health toll from the crisis will be felt for “years to come.” “I think people have … this fantasy that, ‘OK, post-COVID, everything is going to go back to normal,’” she said in a recent interview. And h ow quickly someone gets back out there is really going to vary from person to person, according to Dr. Some people haven’t done as much social distancing as others. People might feel great anxiety and stress, as well.” “On the other hand, it’s normal that people are feeling a lot of other feelings it’s not just joy, universal joy. “I think this overall issue is that there’s a part of us, and certainly I’m like this, who just are excited and feeling hopeful about things going back to normal and being freed up,” she said.
Then there’s just dealing with the major life change of going from living in the pandemic to what comes after, and this could be different for different people, or different families. “For some people, some activities were easier to avoid, and that will be a challenge,” Koenen said. Many people who already were dealing with anxiety have not come face-to-face with their stressors in a year the things that used to make them anxious - going to school, being in an office, interacting with coworkers - are things people were told they couldn’t do.
“We should be feeling happy, but we don’t, and that can be really confusing to people,” Koenen said.
You’re just trying to get through it.”Īnd when the world really begins to open back up again, some people may be surprised by how they feel. “When you’re in a crisis, or kind of going through a trauma, you can’t really process what’s happening. “People may be surprised what they experience coming out of the pandemic,” she said. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Chan School of Public Health, said she’s already noticed very different approaches and levels of anxiety within her own community, even though they all follow the U.S. Karestan Koenen, a professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Government officials in recent days appeared ready to accelerate what has been a gradual easing of the lockdown.Ī few malls and markets have reopened, and some residents have been given passes allowing them out for a few hours at a time.Dr. Health authorities on Wednesday reported just 15 new cases of COVID-19 in Shanghai, down from a record high of around 20,000 daily cases in April. Schools will partially reopen on a voluntary basis, and shopping malls, supermarkets, convenience stores and drug stores will reopen gradually at no more than 75% of their total capacity. “I’m very happy, extremely happy, all the way, too happy,” she said. Lu Kexin, a high school senior visiting the Bund for the first time since late March, said she went crazy being trapped at home for so long. “It was quite depressing to be locked at home and see the whole Shanghai under lockdown.” “At the beginning of the lockdown I felt hard in my heart because I didn’t know what to do and it was difficult to buy food at the beginning,” she said. Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward reopening China's largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has set back the national economy and largely confined millions of people to their homes.Ĭao Yue, who works in the hard-hit travel industry, said it was a joy to see “many happy people around me on the street.”Ĭao said the past two months under lockdown was a depressing experience. Residents cheer as they pose photos as it nears midnight on the eve of the lifting of a COVID-19 lockdown, May 31, 2022, in Shanghai. That didn’t deter people from gathering outside to eat and drink under the watch of police deployed to discourage large crowds from forming. The government says all restrictions will be gradually lifted, but local neighborhood committees still wield considerable power to implement sometimes conflicting and arbitrary policies. Still, more than half a million people in the city of 25 million are still under lockdown or in designated control zones because virus cases are still being detected. The lockdown set back the national economy and largely confined millions to their homes, while its ruthless and often chaotic enforcement prompted protests in person and online that are seldom seen under China’s strict authoritarian government.įull bus and subway service will be restored Wednesday, as will basic rail connections with the rest of China. Shanghai residents visited the waterfront Bund and ate and drank along streets patrolled by police early Wednesday as people in China’s largest city savored the easing of its severe two-month COVID-19 lockdown.
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