As many of us are being told to hunker down in our apartments and houses and limit trips outside and social contact, things are feeling pretty “real” at this point. Aside from the general worry, people may have about their physical health as they digest the news from around the world and here at home, there’s the larger toll this is taking on our collective mental health. One of the main weapons we have to fight the virus is social distancing—a deeply unnatural practice for humans, but an essential one.