Coping with COVID-19

Given how challenging the coming days are likely to be for all of us, both personally and professionally, the Cocoon has tentative plans for a new series, Coping with COVID-19. The aim of this new series will be very simple: to support each other through this. Are there particular things you are struggling with personally or professionally as a result of this crisis that you could use help with? Alternatively, are there ways of coping with things that you've found helpful that you'd like to share with readers?

If you would like to contribute a post to the series (including anonymously, if that is what you feel comfortable with), please email either me ([email protected]), Helen ([email protected]), or Ian ([email protected]). Feel free to contribute on anything you like within the Cocoon's mission, including but not limited to things like teaching, grappling with illness (viz. you, your loved ones, etc.), parenting through the crisis, grappling with social isolation, and so on.

Again, our hope is that this series will respond to your needs and enable us all to do what we can here to help each other in these difficult times. However bad things are and might become, we trust that we can still do good for one another as a community.

Comments

[Anon]

I just want to thank all contributors of this blog and to Marcus in particular: you are really making the difference for early-career scholars like me. This call for a new series is just one example of how helpful you are.

[anonyrat]

Thanks for this. Do you know of any online academic (maybe only for philosophers, maybe not) mental health support groups for those of us that either don't have family in the area or are otherwise low in social contact? If there isn't a group like this, I'd be interested in starting one, provided some interest.

[Marcus Arvan]

Anon: Thank you for the very kind words. :) I hope you and yours stay well in these difficult times.

anonyrat: great question. I just published a new post on this to bump up its visibility, as I think this is a really important issue and hope we can help!