Perdimos la capacidad de controlar con la llegada del Covid.

With the Covid pandemic, society began to talk more about mental health. The lockdown, millions of deaths and infections, the loneliness of many people, and the uncertainty made mental health take on another consideration and more interest. That’s why, in the series of interviews «Huellas de la Pandemia,» on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Covid, Javier Gálvez, Deputy Director of News at Telemadrid, has chatted with psychologist Ana Villarrubia.

«With the pandemic, we all connected with a state or a situation that we had never experienced before. We often forget to talk about controllability. It’s the idea that I’m going to come home, I’m going to flip the switch, and there will indeed be light. In other words, I can have a minimal impact on my environment and the environment will give me the expected response. And we lost that controllability. We lost the ability to control what was going to happen tomorrow; how to take care of our loved ones… When a human loses controllability, they fall into the worst possible state, helplessness, and nothing matters much. And this happened to all of us in one way or another,» she explains. She adds that some people used the crisis as an opportunity, but many others did not.

You can follow these and other reflections in this extensive conversation that reflects how the coronavirus pandemic affected us all mentally.

An essential analysis by Ana Villarrubia to understand what happened to us, what worried us, how we understood what was happening, and how we can face similar situations in the future.