Relearning and Readjusting Post-COVID An Emotional Intelligence 5-Part Series
Part 4: Social Skills
There’s a sense of excitement in our island community. Stores are reopening, events are returning, and summer will soon be in full swing. But even as things start to look more like normal, some of us might feel anything but. Post-pandemic social anxiety is both a source of comical memes and point of serious research. The latter suggests that real changes in brain function and structure from prolonged isolation could make us feel awkward in social situations that used to be second nature. Essentially, social skills can decrease just like muscles when they are not used.
“We’ve been forced to be asocial, at least in physical terms, for a year now,” the BBC writes. “As a result, many are finding that any in-person social interaction is awkward – it feels like we have to re-learn how to sit in a room with another human.” So, how do we get back to normal social interactions? Here are a few tips:
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