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Pandemic Flux Syndrome — Dealing With Your Mental Health

The length of the pandemic has had significant impacts.

Then this morning I got an email from my pastor asking if I had heard of Pandemic Flux Syndrome. I looked it up — a fairly new term...

See this: Pandemic Flux Syndrome

I also sent the link to someone I was talking to last night about the dearth of people to fill the jobs that are advertised, and where have all the people gone? There is a reference in the article about making "big life changes," and I think that is one of the significant issues as people YOLO their lives after experiencing 18 months of the pandemic.

There is also a bit there directly applicable to emergency managers and how our body and mind deal with a crisis, and the need for downtime.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.