How Tony Labrusca overcame anxiety during ECQ
If there’s one good thing the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) has brought Tony Labrusca is that it allowed him to find inner peace.
The actor admitted during a media con that he initially had so many worries going into the lockdown.
“I realized I was actually a dependent person. Before this quarantine happened, I found security with being with other people or being with friends. (Pero) nung nag-start yung quarantine, parang I was left with no choice but to spend some time alone. And it really helped me actually find in that. I’ve been able to be so comfortable with my simple routine and being happy and being grateful that I’m safe and at home and even if I’m bored, that I have at least that much,” he shared.
Tony said he now looks at everything in a positive light.
“Now my mindset is quite different because parang I’m so at peace right now. Things aren’t complicated. And I was talking to my mom the other day, it’s like it switched. At the beginning of the quarantine I was so nervous that I was stuck, that I wasn’t working, that I wasn’t being with other people and now it’s like I’ve found so much mental peace that I’m actually anxious on how I’m going to integrate myself with society again (laughs),” he said.
“So like, I’m not sure if this is how other people feel but it just feels so nice, being alone and not hearing so much noise. It’s actually been really nice and I think quite healthy for me. It’s so funny when this quarantine started, it was so different because the past few years parang the only thing I knew how to do, whether I liked it or not, was to work and to be around people. So nung nag-start na yung quarantine, parang wala tayong choice except to be with our thoughts and to process a lot of the things that were going on in our lives.” (Report by Regina Mae Parungao)