These are extraordinary times. Travelling through London to our Therapeutic Parenting workshop yesterday felt eery. Absence of people, like absence of toilet rolls on the shelves in the supermarket, does something to the brain, it activates our biological drive to survive. Fear is contagious, it causes anxiety and confusion, it forces us into dependency on survival instincts. When we see an absence of people on the streets, it reminds us that there is something to fear.
I was in our local supermarket a couple of days ago waiting to pay for my shopping and my eye was caught by the headlines of the day on the newspaper stand.
As I stood, waiting for the panic buyers to empty their trollies of loo roll and pasta (I could not quite believe it was true but there it was in front of me, people were buying toilet rolls and pasta in bulk)…
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Madison Elizabeth Baylis 