Why people panicked about COVID?
It is now a well-established fact that the novel coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic targetted the ACE-2 receptors3. Recall that Renin-Angiotensin system leads to our vasoconstriction. You may also already know that one of the prominent drugs that is being used extensively for the treatment of essential hypertension is the ACE-2 inhibitor.
Therefore morbidity in COVID-19 was higher for hypertensive individuals due to more expressed ACE-2 receptors.
We already now understand the transistive rule of human health. So,
Hypertension=>(High Risk)=>Covid-19;
Sympathetic dominance=>Mania;
Sympathetic dominance<=>Hypertension;
∴ Hypertension<=> Mania;
∴ Mania<=(Increased Risk)=>Covid-19;Mania=> Panic attacks;
∴ Covid-19=>Panic attacks;Mania is a habit of doing something over and over again. So, if Mania becomes a habit, then induced habits also lead to mania.
Because in COVID-19, several habits such as social distancing, hand sanitizing, and constant monitoring were induced as habits in people, they led to mania, and mania led to sympathetic dominance, which led to increased ACE-2 expressions, which led to elevated risks of COVID-19, which then resulted in panic.
Covid-19 was a panic-manic pandemic, more than a viral pandemic
Hi Rupam da,
This is a great article packed with valuable information.
If someone is suffering from memory functioning not properly and that in turn causes panic, is that something curable? E.g., in a sudden actionable situation his/her memory doesn’t trigger in time to resolve the situation, and instead panic occurs. So, no action is taken and a disastrous situation is imminent, in turn, that causes more panic.
Dear Subhajit, thanks for your comment and for posting the query.
1. Panic is a reaction of the brain. Brain panics when it considers a situation threatful.
2. In my case, I am severely dyslexic. I can’t make sense of spellings, and because of severe brain information overload, often tend to forget small things when I try to remember them. It happens all the time.
3. When I forget and fail to recollect information, it becomes frustrating sometimes, and such frustration may irritate me.
4. Such forgetfulness is limited to forgetting memory and may result in carelessness and diversion of focus from our actions. For instance, over the past few weeks, several times, I have forgotten to turn off the gas after making tea, resulting in burning the utensil.
5. Such incidents resulted in kind of fear and over-alertness whenever I went near the stove.
So, I can completely understand and comprehend your question. Here is how I have dealt with the situation.
i) When such forgetfulness occurs, note down the incidents.
ii) This convinces the brain that you are not worried or frustrated about the situation but taking them as an opportunity to learn why they are happening.
iii) When you are not occupied, open the notes of all the situations and think deeply from the last evening of the day of the event till the evening of the day of the event about every incident.
iv) You will invariably notice that the forgetfulness is a result of poor sleep, relationship conflict, someone triggering you already in the last two days, or suppressed anger.
v) Now, when you correlate multiple such incidents, you will see similar patterns.
vi) Write down this pattern as “Cause of Forgetfulness.”
vii) Next time a similar event happens, just open your notes of the causation section and check if the events and patterns are the same as what you have discovered.
viii) After pattern matching, you will see that you are no more panicking. Now your brain will device strategies to overcome or avoid those patterns.
Final Thought:-
Panic is a phenomenon of the afraid subconscious brain. Whenever panic situations are appearing in life, bring them into your conscious brain and analyze them. Helps you overcome panic attacks.