THE ESSENTIAL
- It is possible to record your cries of stress and frustration on a dedicated website.
- Since the start of the health crisis, 40% of us have felt more stressed than usual.
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After long weeks of confinement, Iceland offers to treat stress and frustration using an original method: cry therapy. “In recent weeks, many of us have experienced heightened feelings of frustration, fear, loneliness, anger or guilt, and we have all had to deal with it in different ways, explains Zoe Aston, psychotherapist and mental health specialist. Screaming to release repressed emotion allows you to reconnect with yourself and hear your own voice. And it’s not in any way aggressive but rather a way of becoming aware of his feelings “, continues the specialist.
Sources of frustration
Concretely, it is possible to record your cries of stress and frustration on a dedicated website. Once collected, the cries will be broadcast through loudspeakers in the most beautiful places in Iceland (Festarfjall summit, Skógarfoss waterfall…).
Since the onset of the health crisis, 40% of us have felt more stressed than usual, and 37% report a negative impact of the coronavirus on our mental health. Although friendships and family have been the main source of frustration, 36% also mention the closure of their favorite bars and restaurants. Twenty-seven percent are also annoyed at not being able to travel abroad.
Exorcising psychological pain
“People all over the world have been going through a lot in the past few months. We want to do what we can to help people ease their stress. In Iceland, we are fortunate to have wide open spaces and incredible nature, which makes it the perfect destination to let these frustrations escape. “, explains Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, director of Visit Iceland.
Therapy by the “primal cry“ is a technique developed in the sixties by the American psychologist Arthur Janov. It aims to exorcise a deeply buried psychological pain by expressing it with a powerful cry.
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