The Covid-Crazies: How Isolation Affects Our Ability to Process and Regulate Emotions

As a social species, we're wired to process our emotions collectively. Arguably, human connection is our greatest resource for processing and tolerating difficult emotions. So, what happens when a social primate is subjected to long periods of social isolation? On this episode, Dr. Maggie Stagg discusses the role human connection specifically plays in our ability to cope when life gets hard, the impact the social isolation of Covid-19 has had, and how we as a species can choose to move forward together.

“Fight or flight is supposed to happen for short duration of time, it's not supposed to happen in a chronic state. And so all of us are sitting there more in a survival state versus a nice homeostasis, baseline state. And so, of course, you're not able to do the things, tolerate the things that you once were.” --Dr. Maggie Stagg, Psy.D