{"id":338997,"date":"2021-09-14T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:58:00","slug":"next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"#Next Avenue: Are you getting \u2018cave syndrome?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4144623802b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/#As_the_world_began_to_emerge_from_isolation_many_still_have_a_fear_of_going_out%E2%80%94and_the_surge_of_the_delta_variant_isnt_helping\" >As the world began to emerge from isolation, many still have a fear of going out\u2014and the surge of the delta variant isn\u2019t helping<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/#The_challenges_of_cave_syndrome\" >The challenges of cave syndrome<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/#%E2%80%98Back_to_my_bubble\" >\u2018Back to my bubble\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/#Pandemic_20\" >Pandemic 2.0?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/#Dont_forget_self-care\" >Don\u2019t forget self-care<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-are-you-getting-cave-syndrome\/#Dartinia_Hull\" >Dartinia Hull<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Next Avenue: Are you getting \u2018cave syndrome?\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"As_the_world_began_to_emerge_from_isolation_many_still_have_a_fear_of_going_out%E2%80%94and_the_surge_of_the_delta_variant_isnt_helping\"><\/span>\n  As the world began to emerge from isolation, many still have a fear of going out\u2014and the surge of the delta variant isn\u2019t helping<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"article body\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000403056\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div 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rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/\" class=\"icon none\"><em>NextAvenue.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Each April, I take my younger daughter on a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Raleigh, N.C., for her birthday. We dine on French food and visit the North Carolina Museum of Art. We also have a house party with friends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Due to\u00a0the COVID-19 pandemic,\u00a0the 2020 shindig was a bust. But in spring 2021, more people received their vaccinations, the world crept toward normal and Mackenzie and I fumbled through packing (we didn\u2019t remember how).<\/p>\n<p>As everybody began arriving for the party, I thought \u201cseven people and three dogs in a room is a lot.\u201d Sweat trickled down my spine. Then three more people walked in, which was when I hyperventilated, spiraling into a screaming\/shaking\/crying panic attack right in front of everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are too many people,\u201d I said while sobbing and gasping for air. \u201cIt\u2019s too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat in a dark room for a long while before venturing back out, hoping my daughter wasn\u2019t too embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>A quick run through <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> these days probably shows gatherings of family and friends, unmasked, joyful, hugging. You know:\u00a0<em>normal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But after this time of social distancing, masks, DoorDash<br \/>\n        DASH,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/222973991\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.82%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       hand sanitizer, ventilators, death and Zoom<br \/>\n        ZM,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/211319643\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-3.73%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       it can be\u00a0terrifying to be out in the world,\u00a0masked or not, vaccinated or not. The anticipated freedom has instead been a dread of socializing. Who coughed? Why is everybody standing close? Can\u2019t we\u00a0Zoom\u00a0this meeting?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCave syndrome,\u201d it turns out, is a thing, according to Dr. Thaddeus Bell, a family physician who practices in Charleston, S.C., and is founder of the nonprofit\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/closingthegapinhealthcare.org\/\" class=\"icon none\">Closing the Gap in Healthcare<\/a>. And while the term \u201ccave syndrome\u201d is recently coined, the phenomenon isn\u2019t new.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe noticed this in American-Japanese citizens who were forced to be rounded up and put in a designated area after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,\u201d Bell said. \u201cAnd the U.S. retaliated and they forced American-Japanese citizens to stay in [<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/education\/lessons\/japanese-relocation\" class=\"icon none\">internment camps<\/a>] for [several years].\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Also read: <\/strong>How the Covid crisis is making retirement inequality worse<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_challenges_of_cave_syndrome\"><\/span><strong>The challenges of cave syndrome<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>\u201cA lot of those people who tried to integrate back into society simply couldn\u2019t,\u201d Bell explained. \u201cCave syndrome is like that, where people have trouble normalizing what has become \u2018not\u2019 normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cave syndrome, not an officially recognized diagnosis, nonetheless is a phenomenon that health workers noticed as the world began to emerge from isolation. Coined by psychiatrist Arthur Bregman of Coral Gables, Fla., the term describes what Bregman also recognized as a pattern: a debilitating fear of venturing out.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, University of British Columbia researchers published a study in the journal\u00a0Anxiety predicting that, based on statistics gathered after natural disasters, about 10% of people\u00a0who have lived through the pandemic\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7252157\/\" class=\"icon none\">will develop COVID stress syndrome<\/a>, for any number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Some will have experienced illness from COVID-19 themselves or the deaths of friends and loved ones. Some could have experienced isolation and deep loneliness,\u00a0bankruptcy or financial hardships, job loss or home foreclosure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong>COVID-19 long haulers are frustrated with unvaccinated friends, worried about reinfection, and mired in medical bills<\/p>\n<p>Relationships could have unraveled. But even after the lessening of stress \u2014 as vaccinations were developed and administered, and the infections began to decrease \u2014 learned behaviors remained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have noticed, even in my office, you don\u2019t have to ask patients to isolate themselves,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThey do it automatically. We probably are going to see this in many people, some of them for the rest of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cnormal\u201d is a siren\u2019s call. And it is summer. So, as vaccinations increased, and the weather warmed, Atlanta resident Meg Cocroft decided that a change of scenery would be good for her, her college-aged daughter and her son who was in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d all been fully vaccinated for several weeks, and when things were looking up, we decided we needed to do a trip,\u201d Cocroft said of their vacation to Jekyll Island, Ga.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Back_to_my_bubble\"><\/span><strong>\u2018Back to my bubble\u2019<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>In June, however, COVID-19 numbers began rising as the trip grew closer. \u201cI got nervous,\u201d Cocroft admitted. \u201cBut my daughter\u2019s a student at Emory University, and she said, \u2018It\u2019s a new hotel, there\u2019s lots of patios, lots of space. Chill.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cocroft\u2019s experience was anything but laid back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go to check in [at the hotel], and there\u2019s\u00a0<em>not one person<\/em>\u00a0with a mask on. I was the only one,\u201d she said. \u201cThroughout the weekend, we had our masks on, and nobody else did. And you get those looks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The looks were unsettling, but Cocroft \u201cwas itching for somebody to say something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She developed a plan. \u201cI was going say that \u2018I work in a doctor\u2019s office, and he wants us to mask.\u2019 Nobody ever confronted us, but I couldn\u2019t relax. I just kept thinking \u2018this was too soon.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet me back to my midtown Atlanta bubble,\u201d is what she thought, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Florida resident Jed Dillard also found safety in his bubble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in the woods, in north Florida, about 25 miles from Tallahassee,\u201d Dillard said. \u201cWe\u2019re kinda used to being on the porch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Joan Hare, both of whom were retired at the beginning of lockdown, still made mental adjustments to isolation. It was a sense of \u201cwe can\u2019t go anywhere,\u201d and vaccinations were a while away.<\/p>\n<p>The Dillards had their pod \u2014 two friends who visited upon occasion. When they needed a roof replacement, the work crew stayed distanced and the couple felt safe.<\/p>\n<p>Dillard\u2019s sister-in-law, however, contracted COVID-19 after going to the hospital to get treatment for a cat scratch. Dillard says the nurse who hooked up the IV had a cough, so when his sister-in-law began feeling ill, she called the hospital. She was told that the nurse \u201cwent home sick yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Dillard and his wife talked by phone with his sister-in-law, they thought of his mother, who had died of pneumonia. \u201cWe were in a spiral,\u201d he said. \u201cIt exacerbated that we have to be careful who we\u2019re around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting vaccinated reassured them somewhat. \u201cParanoia might be an\u00a0<em>overstatement<\/em>, but we had a fear of going out\u2026it was gradual,\u201d Dillard said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: How to conquer loneliness and social isolation<\/p>\n<p>And, Dillard says, there remains a sense of foreboding, largely because the rise of the delta variant of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the variant\u00a0can be spread by those who are vaccinated but have breakthrough symptoms\u00a0and is \u201cas contagious as chickenpox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late July, due to the increase in delta variant infections and breakthrough COVID-19 symptoms, the CDC reversed its suggestions for masking, encouraging all \u2014 vaccinated or not \u2014 to wear masks when indoors. The federal government is requiring all employees to become vaccinated or submit to repeated testing, as are several states. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking \u2018Let\u2019s go back.\u2019 The concern about [others] not being vaccinated is worse when you start thinking about the variant,\u201d Dillard says.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pandemic_20\"><\/span><strong>Pandemic 2.0?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><em>Pandemic 2.0?<\/em>\u00a0Maybe, says Dr. Angela Marett Butler, a licensed clinical psychologist in Winchester, Va.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I am debating how to open back up my business and what trips to take, there seems to be a foreboding sense that things may all get shut down again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not unfair, she said, to compare the pandemic and its effects to other large-scale traumatic events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day a few months after 9\/11,\u201d Butler said, \u201c[I heard] a car backfire, and everyone on the street dropped down on the sidewalk. I feel like a lot of folks will be hypervigilant about crowds, shaking hands, someone sneezing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the variables in adapting to re-emergence \u201cwill be how much the pandemic impacted their lives, if they got really sick or\u00a0lost a loved one,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n<p>Bell agrees, and adds that, particularly for African-Americans, the disparity in social issues that came into sharp focus with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and\u00a0George Floyd, and the following unrest, also influenced comfort levels outside of the home.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dont_forget_self-care\"><\/span><strong>Don\u2019t forget self-care<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>There are ways to fight the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeek out professional help,\u201d Bell said. \u201cPeople can start with their primary care physician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell also urges families to pay attention to children\u2019s (or grandchildren\u2019s) behaviors, stressing that attempting to deal with a child\u2019s (or anybody\u2019s) mental stress alone could be disastrous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPractically, basic self-care such as eating well, sleeping well, exercising and\u00a0having routines\u00a0are more important than ever,\u201d Butler said. \u201cFor parents, it is so important to normalize and honor their children\u2019s feelings, but also to model working through the anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And take baby steps, she said. FaceTime for wine instead of going out together, have one friend over instead of five. \u201cI think,\u201d Butler said, \u201cthat another benefit of the pandemic is we can all get \u2018do-overs\u2019 in our relationships and the ways we choose to spend our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cfirst and foremost is compassion for ourselves and each other. Show some grace. Then, take time to\u00a0decide what\u2019s important or valuable to you or your family\u00a0and do those things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>And\u2026seek joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaugh when you can, with your family, with your friend, at\u00a0a TikTok,\u00a0at yourself, your pet \u2014 anything,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dartinia Hull\u00a0is an award-winning writer, editor and aspiring beach bum who is based in the South. Her writing has been published in MUTHA Magazine, CNN, The Bitter Southerner, Age of Awareness and the Charlotte Observer. Her poetry will be included in a forthcoming anthology.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is reprinted by permission from\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/\" class=\"icon none\"><em>NextAvenue.org<\/em><\/a><em>, \u00a9 2021 Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. 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