Clinical Psychologist Taha Burak Toprak conducted an interview titled “Covid-19 in the Context of Challenges, Consequences and Possibilities: Pursuing a Meaningful Life, Not Perfect Cleanliness” with Merve Akbaş for Nihayet Journal.

Toprak’s statements that form the main idea of the interview were as follows: “There is no perfect, flawless cleaning/purification. No measure can completely eliminate the risk of contamination and the anxiety it can cause. We cannot remove the uncertainty about it and the longer we do not accept it, the more doubt and distress we feel. We waste our time trying to achieve certainty that we cannot achieve. Healing comes from accepting uncertainty and understanding that anxiety, distress and risk can never be eliminated in life, so we need to focus our attention not on controlling life, but on behaviors that are in line with our values.”