“I can’t wait to dance with my friends,” Johnson, 28, said over the phone from his apartment in Manhattan. “They are fantasising about what they’re missing right now,” said Deirdre Barrett, a psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School. “To always think of imagination as a good thing is a danger. Future thinking, or “the imagination and belief that something better is coming,” is crucial to getting through hard times. Holding on to hope, even about one simple, mundane thing can make a big difference, O’Connor said.

Source: bd News24 January 17, 2021 06:33 UTC