You're not broken, you're normal! Surge capacity and pandemics.
Description
Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different — the disaster itself stretches out indefinitely. The pandemic has demonstrated both what we can do with surge capacity and the limits of surge capacity. When it’s depleted, it has to be renewed. But what happens when you struggle to renew it because the emergency phase has now become chronic? In a change to our normal routine, this week Producer Andy co-hosts as Cindy sits in the guest seat and helps us to understand that our faltering energies are totally normal.
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