{"id":2027,"date":"2020-10-14T16:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalgia.ink\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:49:49","slug":"how-writing-letters-can-fight-pandemic-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviesis.io\/postalgia\/how-writing-letters-can-fight-pandemic-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"How writing letters can fight pandemic depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life-giving responses to COVID-19 can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>Physical distancing;<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>Mask-wearing in public spaces;<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>Handwritten letters; or,<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>All of the above.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The answer is four. Yes, actually. Handwriting letters to loved ones can make a big impact in the era of COVID-19\u2014especially in addressing the health crisis offshoot of the virus, the depressing effect of social isolation. We all know it first hand after too many draining Zoom calls: the threat of loneliness is very real. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/loneliness-can-directly-impair-immune-system-increase-risk-of-death-study-1.4986159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study<\/a> published in the academic journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences put it bluntly: \u201cLoneliness kills people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial isolation, or a lack of social opportunity, gives rise to a sense of loneliness,\u201d say the McGill and Oxford researchers in the study. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/loneliness-can-directly-impair-immune-system-increase-risk-of-death-study-1.4986159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cDirectly or indirectly, this feeling has many wide-ranging consequences for our psychological well-being as well as our physical health, even our longevity.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have more ways to connect with others than ever before\u2014even in a public health crisis that demands physical distancing even from our closest family. But many of these methods of \u201cconnection\u201d don\u2019t provide the jolt of warmth and community that comes from face-to-face social contact. Texting, WhatsApp messaging, video and phone calls\u2014they just don\u2019t feel the same.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only you who feels that way.<\/p>\n<p>Two academic experts on the topic\u2014one a professor of organizational behaviour and the other a psychologist\u2014have written that <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/zoom-fatigue-is-real-heres-why-video-calls-are-so-draining\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cmeeting online increases our cognitive load, because several of its features take up a lot of conscious capacity.\u201d<\/a> These experts <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/zoom-fatigue-is-real-heres-why-video-calls-are-so-draining\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point to<\/a> the increased difficulty of noticing and processing non-verbal social cues during video calls, the lack of natural conversational rhythm caused by freezing streams and choppy audio\u2026even looking at our own faces constantly can be stress-inducing!<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, writing letters to and receiving letters from our loved ones is a far more positive social experience than the looping roller coaster of daily video calls. We aren\u2019t the first to notice this. To support lonely children during the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/kidshelpphone.ca\/get-info\/letters-of-support-from-kids-like-you-during-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kids Help Phone organized a letter-writing campaign<\/a> where kids from across Canada could share letters of encouragement\u2014a global, open-concept pen pals\u2019 program. There\u2019s an Ohio-based non-profit organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/loveforourelders.org\/letters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Love For Our Elders<\/a> whose sole mission is to share love with lonely seniors by empowering strangers to write them letters. Even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/employee-resources\/blog\/2020\/04\/21\/supporting-elderly-loved-ones-during-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is getting in on the action<\/a>, encouraging employees to write letters to elderly relatives to \u201cbrighten your loved one\u2019s day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One advocate for letter-writing as a balm for the isolation of COVID-19 is Nashville social entrepreneur Courtney Cochran. Through her organization <a href=\"https:\/\/snailmailsocialclub.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/22\/shut-in-social-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shut-In Social Club<\/a>, Courtney connects potential pen pals across the country and empowers Americans to write letters of encouragement to strangers. Courtney calls letter-writing during the pandemic \u201ca silver lining on a very gray cloud. We just need it right now, more than ever\u2026\u201d Americans agree: the U.S. Postal Service reported higher product sales, including stamps, in April 2020, and also published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/24\/style\/mail-letters-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey results<\/a> showing one in six American consumers were sending more mail to loved ones during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you\u2019re reading this and thinking: This sounds like a wonderful thing to do in your personal life. But why not your professional life?<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. Your customers, donors, and leads are people just as much as your friends and family are. They\u2019re feeling the same weight of isolation we all are \u2013 the strain of too many video calls, missed family time, the loss of their favourite hobbies and social activities.<\/p>\n<p>We often think about ways to offer an open heart and a shoulder to cry on for those we love. Why not those our business depends on as well? Here at Postalgia, we know about the power of handwritten letters. We help businesses, charities, and other organizations produce and send them at-scale, to create an intimate personal connection with thousands of contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Consider sending our handwritten letters to your professional contacts\u2014not to sell anything, but to offer something. Offer to help. Offer to hear. Offer to offset some of the hurt they have experienced due to this pandemic\u2014a pain we have all experienced in our own way. Use handwritten letters to commit a humble good: letting them know you\u2019re here, you\u2019re living this too, and we\u2019re all in it together.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors, nurses, grocery store staff, and other essential and frontline workers\u2014these are the folks carrying the heaviest weight in the fight against the pandemic. But we all have a part to play. And maybe your part is the simple, radical act of sending a letter, to let someone know you care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life-giving responses to COVID-19 can include: Physical distancing; Mask-wearing in public spaces; Handwritten letters; or, All of the above. The answer is four. Yes, actually. 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