“Smile, don’t make trouble fun” Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Love in the Time of Plague” Nightmare, we are all going to die! (Yes, but not today and not all at once, calmly). With the advent of COVID19, tense moods are growing throughout the global community: irony, laughter, bravado, anger, anxiety, and sometimes outright panic seize people in response to news of another pandemic. There are many different feelings and reactions, but few remain indifferent. Now this disease excites minds; before there was bird and swine flu, SARS and many others. Having defeated the current threat, humanity will again face many others, including military conflicts, terror, financial crises, etc. All these phenomena will have one thing in common - the psychological state of people and its consequences for the health of themselves and several generations of their loved ones. However, with the right approach, you can come out of any situation stronger and happier than ever before. So, I propose several universal actions and exercises that will be effective during any difficult periods for humanity, this block will be about adults, the second about children (see my articles): What to do if I'm not a coward, but... (place for your condition): acknowledge your feelings and give them the opportunity to express them. One way or another, everyone has certain reactions to a potential threat to life. I notice that people are divided into several camps in this regard: those who are terrified of the threat, those who take reasonable precautions and those who laugh at others and flaunt their fearlessness. So, it is far from a fact that the latter are not the biggest alarmists! It’s just that often they feel so unbearably bad that it’s easier not to recognize these feelings in themselves and blame others for such manifestations of “weakness.” Because of this behavior, others may be ashamed of their fear, hide and hide it from themselves and others, which greatly undermines their health and resilience, their ability to adequately cope with everyday activities and relationships. Do not do it this way. Please don't invalidate other people's feelings or let them do the same to yours. What to say to a rude person: And for me this is important, I really feel _____ (a place for your experiences) during all this _____ (the event that caused the feeling). Please don't blame me for this anymore. Please share how you manage to stay positive? use a sense of humor. Find jokes and comics, cartoons about the current misfortune, discuss with friends and family. No, this does not contradict the previous point about ridicule and devaluation, if in previous communication you have already managed to understand how you and your interlocutor feel and have built a trusting atmosphere. Fear weakens your health, makes you make wrong decisions, exhausts you... and when it’s funny, then it’s not scary. In addition, such common topics of conversation significantly bring people together and help to establish and strengthen human relationships. What can I say: have you heard a new joke? They say that the coronavirus, purely technically, cannot last long, like everything Chinese! =) Stupid, right? But it's fun to unite, to seek intimacy instead of isolation. Sounds crazy, given the quarantine and the risk of infection? Just not. Crisis events exacerbate a person’s sense of loneliness, mistrust and fear, and this is one of the most common causes of immunosuppression and the development of psychosomatic diseases (“from the head and nerves” that occur). The most effective way to counter this is to communicate confidentially with people, seek a sense of unity, uniting against a common problem. It has been scientifically proven that such actions reduce stress and significantly increase a person’s psychological and physical resilience and survival. Moreover, it is absolutely not necessary to meet in person - in our age of high technology, you can be close, even being thousands of kilometers away. Create or activate communities, support each other using at least: