Immobilized & Self-Sedated

Why Corona makes us so tired...

Our everyday life is permeated by an increasing leaden heaviness. Many people say it is a single "fogging state." Everything blurs, you don't really know when you experienced what. If you have experienced anything at all. Yesterday, the day before yesterday or a week ago? When did I watch this series, when was this call again?

➡ Fatigue signals not only the body, but also our psyche: "Withdraw from the outside world!" We no longer want to perceive the world and the misfortune out there, to isolate ourselves. The psyche does that, like the body, when it becomes too much.

➡ In Corona times, retreat is not only prescribed, but also an emergency solution to avoid having to constantly deal with the fragile and at the same time never-ending state. We are in a kind of self-sedation!

➡ In "Inhibition, Symptom Anxiety" Sigmund Freud already describes that the constant suppression of our inclinations - such as meeting people, celebrating, going out and hugging us - is incredibly exhausting (Jens Lönneker, thank you for this hint). We are currently constantly practicing restraint & suppression of our desired activities. That makes you tired, exhausted.

To be able to endure this better, we flee into self-sedation!

Alcohol (a winner of the crisis) and Netflix (with growth rates that can hardly be surpassed, but other streaming services are also enjoying constant viewing rates) are good "products" that help with sedation.

Now we are being shut down even further by the curfew. Even less movement. Holding your breath even more. But we've long run out of breath.

And hardly any motivation left. Because for motivations we need a goal, confidence, hope. There is hardly any. Because the prospect of traveling or visiting restaurants has moved back into the distance. Actually, it is hardly to be seen. And: the measures - always the same for that matter (read more about it here.) seem to bring hardly anything:

"The last year felt like a permanent diet where you didn't lose 1 kilo."

(Ines Imdahl in the breakfast lounge at Clubhouse)

If we didn't have the possibility of self-sedation, we could not only endure the condition even less, but there would probably be much more rebellion and civil disobedience (as is the case with the conspiracy theorists, for example).

Sascha Lobo also writes about this in his Spiegel-Online article. He now has his own Corona rules instead of letting himself be shut down senselessly. It should be noted that he sometimes imposes stricter rules on himself than prescribed. But he no longer wants to follow the government's tiring, constantly changing rule-unlogic. Either tired, or rebellious. Mr. Lobo himself writes about how dangerous he considers this.

Most people will probably not rebel, but will increasingly flee into the cottony "tiredness". Because anger & fear can't be "burned off" anywhere right now. Not on the soccer field, not while dancing, only very limited in sports. And only getting upset inwardly and while watching the news is even less good for our souls...

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