Addressing Your Mental Health with Honesty, Empowerment, and Creativity – Part 2

Performant Mental Health, The Series

Editor’s note: COVID-19 was hardly on the map when we began writing this series. Today the Coronavirus is top of mind for nearly everyone. While this series isn’t focused on COVID-19 exclusively, we feel it’s important to provide resources to help you care for your mental health during this global pandemic. Here are just a few.

• Coronavirus Anxiety — Helpful Expert Tips and Resources — Massive list of resources continually updated by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
• How to Be Together Apart In the Time of Coronavirus — “In this time of increasing social isolation, gathering to stave off loneliness will be one of the most important forms of virtual gathering. Meaning and connection are easier to create, particularly virtually, through specificity and structure” (The New York Times).
• If Coronavirus scares you, read this to take control over your health anxiety — “Try not to seek constant reassurance. Seeking reassurance can make you feel calmer for a little while, but in my experience, it is always temporary. Your brain creates a feedback cycle where you become increasingly reliant on reassurance, which only serves to reinforce the anxiety” (The Guardian).