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Manage Stress

Understand Stress....

...In Order to Manage it.

Stress, Balance, and the Coronavirus. five manifestations of this: impotence, grief, loneliness, mistrust and displacement. After exploring these manifestations, the author suggests some ways by which we might care for our souls during these perilous times.

That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief. (Harvard Business Review) If we can name it, perhaps we can manage it.

Care of the Soul in the Time of COVID-19 (Psychiatric Times)

Using DBT Skills in the Time of the Coronavirus  (Psych Central) Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides us with many excellent concepts and skills to practice and incorporate with various areas of distress and dysregulation, including the current uncertain times of living with COVID-19.

Resource: For COVID-19 Responders to Help Reduce Secondary Traumatic Stress Reactions (CDC)

 

Disaster Distress Helpline
Call 1-800-985-5990

Stress & Coping (CDC). Coping with stress will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger.

Drink Lots of Water. The 3 ways that stress hormones leave your body:

  • Sweat it out (exercise) -- visit YouTube for aerobic exercise videos.
  • Cry it out -- a tear jerker movie or just let yourself release your grief.
  • Pee it out -- especially if the above 2 are inaccessible right now.

Enjoy Some Pandemic Humor. Laughter is the best medicine.

Twin Cities Coronavirus Solidarity. Seek community support related to the pandemic

Telehealth Therapy. Schedule a virtual appointment with a mental health practitioner. 

 

 

 


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