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5 Ways To Manage Your Mental Health While Working From Home During The Covid-19 Pandemic

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  Are you finding it difficult to manage the restrictions during the Covid-19 heightened alert measures? Information is constantly changing, which can be perplexing, tiring, and even frightening. You might dread juggling work with personal commitments and struggle with feelings of anxiousness in managing this new normal.  Mental resilience  is the ability of a person to successfully adjust to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or extremely difficult circumstances. Stress can easily build up and negatively influence you — both physically and mentally — whether it’s caring for peers (persons with the lived experience of mental health conditions), at-risk family members, a volatile economy, juggling work commitments, homeschooling kids while schools are closed, or simply adjusting to unfamiliar scenarios. These are five steps to manage your mental health when working from home: Create a planned strategy for each day with clear boundaries between your work and personal lives wil
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I intend to pass away ... as well as I'm not joking

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  I being in the center of my empty residence and also my running start to rotate. This can not be true. I had just turned 24 last month, and bear in mind celebrating with my household. We were doing so well. This afternoon, my globe came collapsing down as I heard from our family members legal representative that they had actually died in an auto accident. On top of that, their organization had additionally just been stated bankrupt. I really feel stress and anxiety and also clinical depression approaching on me. It can not be real. My  mental health support groups   condition was definitely going to deprive. I simply really did not have the mental strength to accept this news currently. I began reducing my hands at 17. I understand you get even more blood with the wrists, yet I never ever wanted anybody to see the cuts, so I maintained them on my palms. My parents were rarely about. It constantly functioned help them. I didn't recognize why I cut my palms. I really desired the pa
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How Do I Manage Stress in the Workplace & Beyond?

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  These are a couple of things that I find useful to manage stress in the workplace and in my personal life: Change of perspective! Looking from many different angles I find keeping a journal useful. Start noting down situations that may have made you abnormally upset or confused. You may stick to two simple questions, “What made me upset?” and “Do I have the resources to overcome this situation?” If you notice that your mind is spiraling with negative thoughts, you may want to simply write all of them and then look at it tomorrow to see if any of these thoughts are helpful. If they aren’t, feel free to discard them. Some stressors are not worth holding on to, they do not make you “worthier”. Talk therapy and the community We need a community who understands our troubles to thrive.  Mental health  conditions do not choose people, and anyone can struggle from it. This pandemic has opened our eyes to the idea of therapy and a therapist can be effective for some. Don’t you find that somet
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Youth Mental Resilience

 Resilience Collective (RC) is an IPC registered mental health charity powered by peers, for peers. Peers, or persons with the lived experience of mental health conditions are empowered through our resilience education modules which equip peers with recovery strategies and coping mechanisms, and peer support initiatives which see peers supporting each other as they progress ahead in their recovery journeys. By harnessing the voices of peers which speak to the value of first-hand perspectives and knowledge of  mental health recovery , and co-producing holistic  mental health support  solutioning with other stakeholders, RC together with our peers help to drive anti-stigmatism and promote help-seeking among those at risk. Through community-driven initiatives and engagement, RC aims to drive meaningful dialogue based on equal partnerships between peers and society, building inclusivity and removing the damaging mentality of “us and them.”
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5 Ways To Help A Depressed Person

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  In this article, we share 5 ways to help a depressed person. What started out as a straightforward website article has expanded to a collation of views and I want to thank the 60 individuals who shared their opinions and experiences about mental health support and  mental resilience  with me. You will see their words in italics alongside mine. Together, let us give you an insider’s view into the world of someone with symptoms of depression. So what is depression, really? Hallmarks of depression : Low mood, loss of interest in daily activities, unable to find pleasure in things we once enjoyed. Perhaps bouts of crying or even self-harm. Feeling unreasonably guilty about unimportant things. Feeling useless, worthless, a burden to those who love them. Having no feeling, seeing the world through a gray lens. Insomnia, or hypersomnia. Thoughts of suicide. This list is not exhaustive. A diagnosis of major depressive disorder is based upon the person experiencing a certain number of intense
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My Journey to be a Peer Support Specialist

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  “I want to use my skills that I learn from the peer support specialist course to help others who are having mental health challenges, said Y, with a look of conviction in his eyes. Y did his peer support specialist practicum with Resilience Collective and found it to be a meaningful experience that he wishes to encourage other peers to register for the programme if they feel ready on their recovery journey. Y struggled with depression and panic attacks since he was in his twenties. He felt that recently, he was more stable in his recovery and felt that through the course, he got to know more peers with mental health challenges, and this gave him a sense of community because he could relate better with similar lived experiences. During the programme, RC staff have given Y the confidence and resources to co-produce content with peers for RC’s Resilience Education workshops. Co-production allow peers to harness their lived experience with a mental health condition for personalised and s
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