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Concrete Ways to Help You Survive Unemployment, Mental Health Struggles, and Being Constantly at Home During this Pandemic
Tips, Tricks, and Strategies to help you cope with loss of income, shrinking resources, boredom, and all other issues that happen within circumstances such as this.
13 min readMar 25, 2020
What’s a person to do?
Well panicking is DEFINITELY not the answer. That just sends stress hormones and if you’re dealing with depression and/or anxiety? It makes everything worse. Here’s a short list of things you can do immediately to calm your mind:
Mental health and wellness tips:
- Take your meds! If you’re on any type of prescriptions, take them as prescribed. Missing doses, especially depression or anxiety medications, can cause more issues, allowing symptoms previously kept at bay to resurface and destroy whatever progress you’ve made during your treatment! If you’re out, find a way to get them either mailed to you or pick them up being super careful to not contaminate anything or touch…