As a mental health provider, a few keys that keep coming up with colleagues and patients, for surviving #QuarantineLife with the spread of #Covid_19 (1/3)
Go back to reframing.
This is an adjustment. A lack of certainty and control drives up anxiety. We can slowly build some level of control in our daily lives, will help keep anxiety down.
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#anxiety#Covid_19#FightCOVID19
1. Reframe - keep perspective
2. Exercise - + immunity, + mental health
3. Connect - while isolating, this is the most collectively shared experience we’ve had
4. Stop Checking news. You know already what to do
5. Empathy - very normal to be anxious, give yourself a break (2/3)
the house is in order. the wardrobe is organized. oh and i just looked at tomorrow’s forecast. i predict that i’m gonna need a drink around 10:30am. who’s wit me?
food poisoning. jacked up shoulder. forgot a key email.... from last week. aight i admit defeat. my body is older than my soul. time to rein it in... after #coachella#old
0/3 on establishments open on #Easter. by then you find yourself on the other side of town. hangry. and trying not to speak the name of the big guy up top in vain. lawd hammurcy.
letting the world lap you isn't easy but sometimes you gotta put shit on pause for not one min but ten. when you ready though, tap into that grind and recreate all that you once had. and more. on your terms. #hustle#wednesdaywisdom