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Are you searching for something? Where exactly do you look?
TikTok. Instagram. Your email. Your news feed. There s something you want to find, but you can t name it. Something you want to feel, but it s not easy to identify. Maybe you want relief from the day or an escape from reality. Maybe connection. During the pandemic, many of us needed that.
Most of us don t reach for our phones with intention. We reach thoughtlessly, reflexively, craving a satisfaction we believe the phone will provide. The phone is an easy retreat, and it has in many ways helped us access information and gratification, helped us forge and maintain connection. But it has also narrowed the spaces where we seek pleasure and possibility. This shift pre-dates the pandemic, though a year of lockdowns, quarantines, and distancing further limited our engagement with the wider world.
Feeling unmotivated? You re not alone.
During the coronavirus pandemic, it is not uncommon to feel a lack of motivation brought on by things like quarantine, isolation and prolonged trauma, explains Melissa L. Whitson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the University of New Haven. When our systems have been activated by this trauma and other psychological effects for so long, it is quite normal for the body and mind to become overwhelmed and exhausted, and even numb, Whitson, a licensed psychologist, adds. We often refer to this as chronic stress. When we feel exhausted and numb, we often lose motivations for things that we would normally enjoy doing.