Most of us in the United States have been under some form of lockdown or restriction for more than a month now. It has been a stressful time for many due to fear, health concerns, and financial worries.

One of the biggest surprises for a lot of us has been the way other people behave when they're under pressure. I'm not just talking about the folks you see panicking on YouTube videos or the ones you see saying nasty things on Twitter. I'm talking about the people with whom we interact on a regular basis: our family, our friends, our loved ones – the folks who make up our inner circle.

Who stole the wonderful, rational human beings we used to know?

You may all be locking down together, squashing you all into a smaller space than you're used to, and spending more time together than normal, perhaps suddenly putting multiple generations together. Or you may live nearby with the plan to later stay together. It may just be the members of your family who normally live together, but not 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Either way, this has probably been an interesting look at your group dynamic. And for some of us, it may not have all been pretty.

It's been a crash course in human behavior.

Now, this may not apply to you at all. Your lockdown experience may have been like walking back in time with the golden sunlight painting everything. Your children may have been perfect angels, content to do their schoolwork at the kitchen table in the morning after a healthy breakfast about which they did not complain, and then going outdoors in the afternoon to frolic at a safe social distance in the backyard.