51: Maintaining and Addressing Mental Health During the Pandemic
💁 Tracy's Tips for maintaining and improving mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic Warning: this article is very long and contain materials on different topics. Please take it in slowly and separate in different chunks. During the pandemic, mental health may be affected in many ways. Psychological symptoms usually include: nervousness, anxiety, worry, fear, helplessness, being overwhelmed, depression, worry, anger, panic, mania, guilt, or feeling of being treated unfairly due to discrimination against certain group of people. Physiological symptoms usually include: headaches, stomachaches, loss of appetite, insomnia, nightmares, continuously feeling like crying, shortness of breath, heart palpitations (fast heartbeat), fatigue, general weakness, discomfort, etc. Everyone experiences some degree of these stresses, in their own unique way. Biological and social-economic factors all have an impact on your own particular experiences. Regardless of these factors,