Coronavirus: Guidance on Dealing With Feelings of Helplessness

In this five minute video Bessel Van Der Kolk, world renowned authority on trauma and author of The Body Keeps the Score, talks about how to deal with feelings of helplessness during these difficult times. He emphasises the importance of structuring your time and of retaining a sense of agency. We don’t know what’s going to happen or how to control it he says ‘so the only thing that we can control is our own reactions’.