CABIN FEVER

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CABIN FEVER

 

None of us would have ever heard of the term ‘Cabin Fever’. The long COVID-19 lockdown has now confined people to their homes. The present health crisis being unprecedented one where socializing and intermingling opportunities have shrunk drastically, if not altogether snatched away or disappeared, it necessarily causes depressive moods in people in general and children in particular, as, after all, humans are social animals with internal and external co-existence being an integral part of human life. While adults understand the situation, children are forced to be in a state of melancholy, despondency, and down in the dumps having lost many of their enjoyable childhood activities, especially the external ones.

 

April and May are supposed to be holidays for children which meant many delights for them. Normally, they like a holiday. But the unduly longer holiday in the wake of the health crisis perhaps works inversely and is deemed by them as a punishment to them. There is also no clue or clarity about school re-opening in the near future! Can anyone imagine children without freedom of movement and liberty of sorts? This smacks of cutting their wings and caging them too. Schools offer daily rendezvous to children. Unable to pursue children-specific activities, enmeshed in ennui as they are now in a lockdown, they feel annoyed. They thus sit at home in a state of trance as if in a thicket miserably missing their usual quota of physical presence, interactions and play/fun time with their peers. The computer, electronic gadgets, and online/cyber-space tools, though providing some solace, are not effective substitutes or replacements. We, the adults, understand the situation and adapt to it. But children can’t, and obviously don’t. With no physical school or classes and being in ‘captivity’ they miss a world of their usual opportunities.

 

Children may tend to show eccentric, enigmatic, and inscrutable behaviour, even with violence erupting at times, as they suppress their feelings of helplessness. This is what is called ‘Cabin Fever’. Parents and elders should counsel them on proper lines.

 

R.SAMPATH

28/6/2020

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