15 M.o.F. - 3 Tools Event Pro's Can Utilize for Their Mental Health in 2020 (Dr Katie Boyd Psy.D.,LLC) - a podcast by Brian Goldrich

My name is goldy. Our goal today is to discuss three points of mental health tools for event professionals that can help them through this year for the next half year of 2020.  Welcome, doctor katie boyd, who are you? What do you do? Where you at... And what are we gonna discuss today? Thank you. I'm doctor katie boyd. I have a private practice in st louis, missouri.  I see individuals in therapy and help them through a lot of different concerns. Anxiety is my specialty. So certainly, right now people are stressed. There's no doubt about it.  I've been in my practice for 10 years, and i've never really seen this type of universal stressor that we're facing. People are definitely stressed. And as you mentioned, the event industry certainly is facing so much ambiguity and uncertainty.  Today we'd like to talk about tips for how to help manage that, navigate that this year. Our first point today to discuss is the wonderful world of facebook.  Facebook. It is a platform for discussion, as people would like to utilize. It started, I believe, around 2005 ish. I think the website kind of caught fire. I remember getting on it, and it was designed to be, like share pictures and show your mom that you went to the farm today and you had fun with goats and oh, look at my cat, it's funny.  Now it's turned into this complete toxic society. It is... I don't even want to have to explain it. If you don't get what I just said, then you must be some sort of magician.  But it is a poorly executed communication device that is allowing people to hide behind a fourth wall and be sort of like the little guy at a house party where he like, runs in the front door and, bitch slaps the big guy and then runs out of the party again.  That is not communication. That is acting like a jerk. Facebook is a situation, katie, what's your take about facebook and why are we making this a point in mental health today?  I think certainly. Social media, all social media, but facebook especially, because of the discussion platform, can create a lot of stress for people.  I think that a lot of us, you know, people are out of work right now. They've got time on their hands. We were isolated during quarantine so it could be a tool to use to connect with people, as you said. That's what it was designed for. During this time of stress. I think a lot of people are displacing their feelings, their stress. They're angry and they're kind of using facebook as an outlet for that.  It's easy to get sucked into having an argument with a stranger on facebook in the comments or even just reading the arguments of other people in the comments. That creates more anger and stress and it takes us away from the purpose of that tool, which was to connect with each other. I think it's important for people to pay attention to how they feel when they're reading. These comments or getting into arguments and trying to not take things personally.

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