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