An unintended negative consequence of our current quarantine is family/child/spousal emotional and/or physical abuse. To ignore these potential problems is doing a great disservice to the emotional and physical needs of many of our societal family members. We need to be promoting that family members in homes be tolerant and work on good communication during these times when everyone is forced to live in often small living quarters. Even the most tolerant of persons can become frustrated when interacting with persons and feeling a lack of space and understanding. I am finding in persons I talk to, even if from stable homes, that it can be frustrating to be living with a lot of people in the home all the time. We all need to be supportive of our family members and friends we fear may be having turmoil at home. Since we currently cannot visit persons in other homes, this needs to be done by phone, FaceTime, Duo, Zoom or whatever means you use to communicate with others. It also is important for persons to know in need of therapy that during this crisis most insurance companies are allowing sessions to be offered without physically coming into offices. Even though, and hopefully will not happen often, calling 911 will be necessary when there is physical violence in the home. A safe plan is necessary to leave the home if there is fear of violence. I am aware that in most homes people will be able to weather the crisis and move on to a time when the Coronavirus is nothing but a bad memory. I simply want to make a point of the problems that are occurring, hopefully not in enormous frequency, and to be supportive as best we can to persons that are living in difficult and even dangerous situations.
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