Posted on Dec 31, 2021
Sustaining mental health during the holidays and starting strong in 2022
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The holiday season was notorious for causing loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and a sense of loss even before adding the COVID-19 pandemic to the mix. The pandemic has only served to magnify many of these feelings, as gatherings with loved ones are postponed or canceled. The stress of getting everything done on time and navigating family dynamics can lead to struggles that can benefit from support and self-care. In 2021, support doesn’t have to mean long waiting lists or spending hours in therapy — there are new, faster options — and self-care can be done at home to help you plot a course that will start you off on the right foot as we ring in the New Year.
The article has ten suggestions and if none of those work for you...
Sometimes self-care is not enough. Don’t be afraid to seek professional support. Options exist for busy professionals, like frontline health care workers, who may not have time for weekly, one-hour, in-person therapy sessions and don’t want to sit on a waiting list for months.
Digital mental health apps have increased access to mental health care for people around the world. You can find services that fit your specific needs, often on a 24/7/365 basis, so if you need support in the middle of the night, it’s there. Digital apps can include resource libraries, artificial intelligence-driven chatbots that tailor the treatment they provide to your responses, and digital coaching from credentialed mental health professionals at any hour of the day or night from the privacy of your home. Busy schedules or concerns about stigma no longer need to hold people back from getting the support they need, so if the holidays have you struggling, help is available.
The article has ten suggestions and if none of those work for you...
Sometimes self-care is not enough. Don’t be afraid to seek professional support. Options exist for busy professionals, like frontline health care workers, who may not have time for weekly, one-hour, in-person therapy sessions and don’t want to sit on a waiting list for months.
Digital mental health apps have increased access to mental health care for people around the world. You can find services that fit your specific needs, often on a 24/7/365 basis, so if you need support in the middle of the night, it’s there. Digital apps can include resource libraries, artificial intelligence-driven chatbots that tailor the treatment they provide to your responses, and digital coaching from credentialed mental health professionals at any hour of the day or night from the privacy of your home. Busy schedules or concerns about stigma no longer need to hold people back from getting the support they need, so if the holidays have you struggling, help is available.
Sustaining mental health during the holidays and starting strong in 2022
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
It's pretty easy to get there and it's affecting everyone and they day to day interference on our daily lives and even the ability to travel and escape are disappearing. People need other people, isolation isn't good for anyone. Even simple things We took for granted such as primary health care and prevention have taken a back seat the panic approach fostered by many with nothing more than greed and filling their pockets on prescription drugs. The cost of basic items just to eat or even use or even buy a car in the first place are rising out of control. It's no that We shouldn't be concerned about infectious disease and protect ourselves and certainly keep our hands washed, not cough or sneeze on others which We should have been concerned about anyway and certainly following the advise of Your own family physician which I do anyway. This would include of course vaccinations they recommend but I have no trust for the government official telling Me what I should and shouldn't do while they actually make a bad situation even worse. Depression and death by suicide by people that just can't this handle this anymore continue to rise and it's NOT improving. We all need each other and support NOT division such as We are seeing being pushed the population by the current government at the Federal level and in some states or cities. Division is the way to control everyone.
Dave, hang in there, it's pretty hard on all of us and I do understand what Your saying. Never stop thinking for Yourself either, that is what always made us great as a nation individuals Who pave their own way but never lose contact with their fellow Humans ever ! We do need each other and mutual support.
Dave, hang in there, it's pretty hard on all of us and I do understand what Your saying. Never stop thinking for Yourself either, that is what always made us great as a nation individuals Who pave their own way but never lose contact with their fellow Humans ever ! We do need each other and mutual support.
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