Now more than ever,
whether on lockdown or under strict measures due to corona virus,
do we come to realise the importance of the environment we live in and the effect it has on our mental health.
Although the term mental health, falsely, is often seen to relate to heavy psychiatric cases, it is merely our non physical wellbeing.
Therapists and social scientist have in the past emphasised the importance of our environment and the positive and negative effects it has upon individuals. Our extended time spent at home due to the corona virus restrictions have shed light on how the environment which we live in or have created for ourselves assists us, hurts us and definitely how it is an obvious reflection of ourselves. 
Everything has 'ballooned' within households and has mostly brought us against what we often avoided to come to terms with because when on lockdown, there is simply no escape and distractions are limited to minimal.
This brings me to my initial thinking of how environment matters. Never have we been forced to see the environment we live in more than in 2020. Stressful or non-escapable situations tend to put you on the spot where you have to reap what you have sawed.
So what is it that the wrong environment has done to people's lives?
Let's say your marriage is an endless every day attempt not to kill each other but do not want to leave because you do not want to ruin what you have built. Although what you have build is already ruined and is not actually there anymore. Take away everything you do everyday and forced to be at home all the time due to the lockdown.... Guess what that environment would be like...
Now, the opposing scenario could be a loving couple where the environment at home is ever so nice, they like spending time together, do things together etc. Lockdown hits, 'yay', more time to spend together is probably a logical assumption.
In many cases the rise of violence against women has been scary, in many countries. This is more reflective of what was already there rather than was created with the lockdown. The lockdown has brought to surface every little bit of our worst selves we have tried to suppress or ignore and even hide from those closest to us.
For those living alone, it is more likely that since they are unable to take all their shit out to the people they live with, will most likely take it out on themselves. Not because it is a difficult moment but because isolation has brought to light what each of us refused to see and deal with even if it stuff from our childhood.
For those lucky few, this lockdown would be an opportunity to reflect, realise and use this experience to turn something so negative into a stepping stone to become better people when the time comes to be amongst others and create new relationships.
For the unfortunate few, who are so resistant in realising their issues and weaknesses even when those little asshole issues, hit them with a bat with needles, in the face, refuse to do anything, the lockdown will take its tole and post lockdown will be like caged animals who are finally set free.
In the case of children, what can I say.
The unfortunate ones have been locked in with parents which should have never been parents. Negligent, full of issues they refused to work on before having a family, and worst case scenarios abusive.
This environment was already bad and now they are totally trapped as if emotional entrapment wasn't enough, physically too.
So if children from such homes are to become violent themselves, bullies, abusers as they repeat those patterns, what will they now become having being trapped, literally, at home.
Ofcourse the other side of the coin, has been the so many parents who have said to finally have had more time to spend with their children, play with them, talk, interact, and overall spend quality time with them which they couldn't before. This has both benefit parents and children, but the good environment was existent.
But what all of the above examples come down to is, the significance our environments has for us.
What we do forget though is how we are the ones who build them and live within them, and how it is a reflection of who we are, both the physical and non physical space.
