Flourish Health & Wellbeing eMagazine - Jan21 - Flipbook - Page 44
Re-entry anxiety
Christmas has been a welcome reprieve
from the solitary lives many of us were
living. However, if we think of socialisation
as a muscle, many of us weren’t
exercising it much at the back-end of
2021 - if at all! As a result, some may be
worried about increasing the muscle’s
workload, or apprehensive about how it
might perform under the mounting
workload of an office environment.
Furthermore, coming into the office on a
more regular basis is a big change from
our new-found work-from-home routines.
Sometimes, the more we think about this
change, the more we can perceive it as a
negative development. This is called
‘catastrophising’ - where we overexaggerate our perceptions of possible
negative impacts that could occur. This
can lead to increased feelings of worry
and anxiousness.
