{"id":9708,"date":"2020-03-26T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ehealth\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2020-03-29T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:03:27","slug":"compassion-and-covid-19-we-will-get-through-this-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ehealth\/2020\/03\/26\/compassion-and-covid-19-we-will-get-through-this-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion and COVID-19: We Will Get Through This, Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, Kevin O\u2019Dowd, JD, and Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE<\/em><\/p>\n

When facing disasters, generally people are moved by compassion. They usually come together, and help each other. But not always. Pandemics are notable exceptions, historically.<\/p>\n

With earthquakes, wildfires, and hurricanes, people unify. Throughout history, pandemics have been known to produce a detached, \u201csurvival of the fittest\u201d mentality.<\/p>\n

With COVID-19, we are facing extraordinary times that can bring out the worst in people. We have witnessed a supermarket knife fight over toilet paper, rocks hurled at (uninfected) passengers disembarking a cruise ship, and use of xenophobic terms to describe the virus itself.<\/p>\n

Why do pandemics result in less compassion than other types of disasters?<\/p>\n

One reason is fear. If we\u2019re afraid of each other, it can drive us apart. In contrast to a hurricane, where people unite against a visible, external enemy, in a pandemic the enemy is invisible and can be inside those around us.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the wisdom of \u201csocial distancing\u201d and remaining out of congregate settings, avoiding mass gatherings, and maintaining distance (e.g., 6 feet) from others, to limit the spread of the virus drives us apart, not together.<\/p>\n

We urge you to think about adherence to social distancing as compassion for others.\u00a0 Researchers define<\/a> compassion as the emotional response to another\u2019s pain or suffering involving an authentic desire to help. Your \u201cresponse\u201d and \u201chelp\u201d are compassionate actions.<\/p>\n

Two groups are disproportionally being affected by COVID-19. The first group is the elderly and the chronically ill, who are at highest risk of death with infection. The second group is front-line healthcare workers, who in the line of duty are developing severe manifestations of COVID-19 in caring for infected patients. In this moment, both groups are urgently in need of our collective compassion to reduce their suffering.<\/p>\n

The most compassionate act that young healthy people can do is to be rigorous and relentless about social distancing. Your actions will reduce the incidence of COVID-19 and, by extension, protect these vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n

We also must be mindful that other emergencies (e.g., heart attacks and strokes) do not stop during pandemics. Accordingly, compassionate measures to \u201cflatten the curve\u201d of COVID-19 will prevent overwhelming our healthcare system for other sick patients as well.<\/p>\n

Your social distancing is caring for others. If the human toll of COVID-19 proves to be less than it could have been, the compassionate commitment to social distancing among young healthy people will be the pivotal reason. Our young people have the opportunity to be our heroes.<\/p>\n

Social distancing itself may have harmful (unintended) consequences on health as abundant research shows it can. In his book Together<\/em>, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy analyzes decades of research on the health effects of human connection and the evidence is clear: loneliness kills<\/a>. That is, if social distancing \u2013 which is good during a pandemic \u2013 produces social isolation, which is very bad.<\/p>\n

Like COVID-19, loneliness may disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. Right now, many elderly people are terrified and shutting themselves off from the world. Many are struggling with basic needs such as food. The fear and depression associated with their loneliness may be devastating and may lead to hopelessness, and loss of their will to live.<\/p>\n

In scientific circles, hope is sometimes dismissed as a \u201cPollyanna\u201d notion. We disagree. Hope, flowing from compassion, is the active conviction that despair will not have the last word.<\/p>\n

Hope itself is not a strategy, but hope is necessary for every strategy \u2013 including our fight against COVID-19. We have hope because we have each other, and we will go through this together.<\/p>\n

While it is crucial (and compassionate) to maintain a safe physical distance, we must not lose our sense of community and interconnectedness. We believe it is possible to maintain a safe physical distance and still stay connected, showing compassion and comforting others. They are not mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n

We need to support each other, now more than ever. Please let the people around you know that you care about them. Please make special effort with the elderly and infirm by dropping off a meal with an encouraging card to raise their spirits and their hope they can make it through.<\/p>\n

A third vulnerable group is developing: those affected the most by a crippled economy. Disasters always impact poor people disproportionately, and COVID-19 is no exception. If you are fortunate to still have income, please be as generous as you can to those in need. Unprecedented times require unprecedented compassion.<\/p>\n

Importantly, your compassion for others will also help you. There is compelling scientific evidence that compassion is not only beneficial for the receiver of compassion, but for the giver, too. Compassion for others can boost your own mental health<\/a> and well-being<\/a>, reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression that you may be feeling yourself right now.<\/p>\n

Compassion also strengthens resilience<\/a>. Studies show compassion is an effective coping<\/a> strategy that can reduce your own stress<\/a> and help you regulate<\/a> your own emotions. Compassion for others activates your nervous<\/a> system in a way that has a calming effect and can help you forget your own worries<\/a>, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

Research shows that compassion and cooperation are, in fact, highly contagious<\/a> and spread rapidly in social networks. Show compassion, and let\u2019s make this pandemic different than those in the past.<\/p>\n

We are in this together, and we will get through this \u2013 together.<\/p>\n

Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, is an intensive care physician and Chair of Medicine at Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, NJ, where Kevin O\u2019Dowd, JD, is Co-President\/CEO, and Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE, is an emergency medicine physician, Co-President\/CEO, and Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Drs. Trzeciak and Mazzarelli are co-authors of Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference.\u00a0 Mr. O\u2019Dowd served as chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the lead up to and immediate aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Compasi\u00f3n y COVID-19: Juntos, Superaremos Esto<\/h1>\n

Por Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, Kevin O\u2019Dowd, JD, and Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE<\/em><\/p>\n

Cuando se enfrentan a desastres, generalmente las personas se mueven por compasi\u00f3n. Por lo general, se unen y se ayudan mutuamente. Pero no siempre. Las pandemias son excepciones notables, hist\u00f3ricamente.<\/p>\n

Con terremotos, incendios forestales y huracanes, la gente se unifica. A lo largo de la historia, se ha sabido que las pandemias producen una mentalidad separada de “supervivencia del m\u00e1s apto”.<\/p>\n

Con COVID-19, nos enfrentamos a tiempos extraordinarios que pueden sacar lo peor de las personas. Hemos sido testigos de una pelea de cuchillos en el supermercado por el papel higi\u00e9nico, las rocas arrojadas a los pasajeros (no infectados) que desembarcan de un crucero y el uso de t\u00e9rminos xen\u00f3fobos para describir el virus en s\u00ed.<\/p>\n

\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 las pandemias resultan en menos compasi\u00f3n que otros tipos de desastres?<\/p>\n

Una raz\u00f3n es el miedo. Si tenemos miedo el uno del otro, puede separarnos. En contraste con un hurac\u00e1n, donde las personas se unen contra un enemigo externo visible, en una pandemia, el enemigo es invisible y puede estar dentro de quienes nos rodean.<\/p>\n

Adem\u00e1s, la sabidur\u00eda de “distanciamiento social” y permanecer fuera de los entornos congregados, evitar reuniones masivas y mantener la distancia (por ejemplo, 6 pies) de los dem\u00e1s, para limitar la propagaci\u00f3n del virus nos separa, no juntos.<\/p>\n

Le instamos a que piense en la adhesi\u00f3n al distanciamiento social como compasi\u00f3n por los dem\u00e1s. Los investigadores definen la compasi\u00f3n como la respuesta emocional al dolor o sufrimiento de otra persona que implica un aut\u00e9ntico deseo de ayudar. Su “respuesta” y “ayuda” son acciones compasivas.<\/p>\n

Dos grupos est\u00e1n siendo desproporcionadamente afectados por COVID-19. El primer grupo son los ancianos y los enfermos cr\u00f3nicos, que corren el mayor riesgo de muerte por infecci\u00f3n. El segundo grupo son los trabajadores de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica de primera l\u00ednea, que en el cumplimiento del deber desarrollan manifestaciones graves de COVID-19 en el cuidado de pacientes infectados. En este momento, ambos grupos necesitan urgentemente nuestra compasi\u00f3n colectiva para reducir su sufrimiento.<\/p>\n

El acto m\u00e1s compasivo que pueden hacer los j\u00f3venes sanos es ser riguroso e implacable con respecto al distanciamiento social. Sus acciones reducir\u00e1n la incidencia de COVID-19 y, por extensi\u00f3n, proteger\u00e1n a estas poblaciones vulnerables.<\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n debemos tener en cuenta que otras emergencias (por ejemplo, ataques card\u00edacos y accidentes cerebrovasculares) no se detenga durante las pandemias. En consecuencia, las medidas compasivas para “aplanar la curva” de COVID-19 tambi\u00e9n evitar\u00e1n abrumar nuestro sistema de salud para otros pacientes enfermos.<\/p>\n

Su distanciamiento social es cuidar a los dem\u00e1s. Si el costo humano de COVID-19 demuestra ser menor de lo que podr\u00eda haber sido, el motivo compasivo ser\u00e1 el compromiso compasivo de distanciamiento social entre los j\u00f3venes sanos. Nuestros j\u00f3venes tienen la oportunidad de ser nuestros h\u00e9roes.<\/p>\n

El distanciamiento social en s\u00ed mismo puede tener consecuencias perjudiciales (no intencionadas) en la salud, como las consecuencias abundantes investigaciones. En su libro Together (Juntos),<\/em> el ex Cirujano General Estadounidense Vivek Murthy analiza d\u00e9cadas de investigaci\u00f3n sobre los efectos de la conexi\u00f3n humana en la salud y la evidencia es clara: la soledad mata. Es decir, si el distanciamiento social, la cual que es bueno durante una pandemia, produce aislamiento social, lo cual es muy malo.<\/p>\n

Al igual que COVID-19, la soledad puede afectar desproporcionadamente a los m\u00e1s vulnerables. En este momento, muchas personas mayores est\u00e1n aterrorizadas y se desconectan del mundo. Muchos est\u00e1n luchando con necesidades b\u00e1sicas como la comida. El miedo y la depresi\u00f3n asociados con su soledad pueden ser devastadores y conducir a la desesperanza y la p\u00e9rdida de su voluntad de vivir.<\/p>\n

En los c\u00edrculos cient\u00edficos, la esperanza a veces se descarta como una noci\u00f3n de “Pollyanna”. No estamos de acuerdo. La esperanza, que fluye de la compasi\u00f3n, es la convicci\u00f3n activa de que la desesperaci\u00f3n no tendr\u00e1 la \u00faltima palabra.<\/p>\n

La esperanza en s\u00ed misma no es una estrategia, pero la esperanza es necesaria para cada estrategia, incluida nuestra lucha contra COVID-19. Tenemos esperanza porque nos tenemos el uno al otro, y pasaremos por esto juntos.<\/p>\n

Si bien es crucial (y compasivo) mantener una distancia f\u00edsica segura, no debemos perder nuestro sentido de comunidad e interconexi\u00f3n. Creemos que es posible mantener una distancia f\u00edsica segura y seguir conectado, mostrando compasi\u00f3n y consolando a los dem\u00e1s. No son mutuamente exclusivos.<\/p>\n

Necesitamos apoyarnos mutuamente, ahora m\u00e1s que nunca. Informe a las personas que lo rodean que se preocupa por ellos. Haga un esfuerzo especial con los ancianos y los enfermos al dejar una comida con una tarjeta de aliento para levantar el \u00e1nimo y la esperanza de que puedan sobrevivir.<\/p>\n

Se est\u00e1 desarrollando un tercer grupo vulnerable: los m\u00e1s afectados por una econom\u00eda paralizada. Los desastres siempre tienen un impacto desproporcionado en las personas pobres, y COVID-19 no es una excepci\u00f3n. Si tiene la suerte de seguir teniendo ingresos, sea lo m\u00e1s generoso posible con los necesitados. Los tiempos sin precedentes requieren una compasi\u00f3n sin precedentes.<\/p>\n

Es importante destacar que su compasi\u00f3n por los dem\u00e1s tambi\u00e9n lo ayudar\u00e1. Existe evidencia cient\u00edfica convincente de que la compasi\u00f3n no solo es beneficiosa para el receptor de la compasi\u00f3n, sino tambi\u00e9n para el donante. La compasi\u00f3n por los dem\u00e1s puede aumentar su propia salud mental y bienestar, reduciendo los s\u00edntomas de ansiedad y depresi\u00f3n que puede estar sintiendo en este momento.<\/p>\n

La compasi\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n fortalece la resiliencia. Los estudios demuestran que la compasi\u00f3n es una estrategia de afrontamiento efectiva que puede reducir su propio estr\u00e9s y ayudarlo a regular sus propias emociones. La compasi\u00f3n por los dem\u00e1s activa su sistema nervioso de una manera que tiene un efecto calmante y puede ayudarlo a olvidar sus propias preocupaciones, al menos temporalmente.<\/p>\n

La investigaci\u00f3n muestra que la compasi\u00f3n y la cooperaci\u00f3n son, de hecho, muy contagiosas y se propagan r\u00e1pidamente en las redes sociales. Muestre compasi\u00f3n y hagamos que esta pandemia sea diferente a las del pasado.<\/p>\n

Estamos juntos en esto y lo superaremos \u2013 juntos.<\/p>\n

Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, es m\u00e9dico de cuidados intensivos y presidente de medicina en Cooper University Health Care y Cooper Medical School de Rowan University en Camden, NJ, donde Kevin O’Dowd, JD, es copresidente \/ CEO y Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE es m\u00e9dico de medicina de emergencia, copresidente \/ CEO y decano asociado de asuntos cl\u00ednicos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Los Dres. Trzeciak y Mazzarelli son coautores de Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Marks a Difference. El Sr. O’Dowd se desempe\u00f1\u00f3 como jefe de gabinete del gobernador de Nueva Jersey, Chris Christie, antes y despu\u00e9s de la supertormenta Sandy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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