While quarantining at home can be super important to help prevent the spread of diseases like COVID-19 in your community, that doesn’t mean social isolation won’t take its toll. Taking care of your mental health is essential, even if quarantine is only a short blink of time in the grand scheme of things.
It is important to note that everyone copes with stress differently, and some people are more resilient mentally than others, without assigning a value judgment to those capabilities. Some of the factors that affect how someone gets through quarantine include: