To compartmentalize or not?

Yesterday, I talked about “one thing at a time” as a strategy for coping with the whirlwind when “everything” is upside down. Another strategy is to compartmentalize by only dealing with the absolute most critical - kind of like triage at the hospital emergency department - everything else gets put into a proverbial box, which you give yourself permission to ignore!

I don’t know if it’s mentally healthy in the long run. In the short run, it’s very liberating.