Staying Strong During Lockdown Means Reaching Out — And Working Your Mind, Too

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Keeping your brain busy but relaxed by volunteering, gardening, or learning a new language, for example, can help you cope with hard times now and in the future, psychiatrists say.

Mamet Haile is a labor and delivery nurse and a young mother living in San Diego. She moved to the U.S. from Eritrea as a teenager. She works every weekend and is home with her two children on weekdays.

"We organized closets yesterday. We had music and snacks and we were dancing away," she tells NPR. Haile is donating her family's extra toys and clothes to a local shelter.

 

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CordiliaJames What makes you feel more yourself, or more full? These are the activities we need to prioritize right now.

aeidinger ...and rioting. Rioting seems to be working really well, also.

*wears on to (Come on, ) BCDreyer

I just use the time to work more.

Restricting the android screen time while keeping yourself mentally engaged at the same time is proving to be bit of a challenge.

However those of us who've been working from home since March AND watching/educating our kids....we can binge-watch all the Netflix/YouTube we want thank you.

Video games exist for this reason.

I've just bought my first tv set ever.

The best way to deal with the scamdemic is to ignore everything about it and live life normally.

This kind of dumb sh*t is why I don’t donate to you guys

i m looking for job

Shut up do what u wAnt during this time to safe.

on to* (sorry, I can’t help it 😬)

I have said multiple times over the last 6 months that if I didn’t have little kids I would definitely have used this time to re-learn Italian and perfect my bread baking. Kids are a buzz kill.

onto = on, to

The political messhas kept my mind active!

This is useless pop psychology pablum.

In anticipation for winter months I upped my magazine subscriptions and ordered jigsaw puzzle.

Or you can just ignore this crap, acknowledge that it is fraud, and go about living your life.

Exercise.

Honey we have time for both

Absolutely!

When we were ever truly ‘locked down’? We weren’t. Which is why we are where we are now. Worst country in the galaxy

Volunteer gardening at a local park this summer helped me get through some dark times. Bonus points if you live close enough to visit regularly and see your work pay off. Very satisfying 😌

There's little wrong with 'bread-&-circuses' per se, but when 'bread-&-circuses' are the main things we're aware about ... Government knows the value of 'bread-&-circuses' in keeping the plebeians distracted ... ... can we prove them wrong? reality society entertainment

You can also go get a job. I haven’t missed work because of Covid-19 yet.

Have these 'psychiatrists' even tried to watch Cheers from the beginning?

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Masking and Muzzling Children Social Isolation Removal of interactive learning/sport/play Telling children they might die or kill grandma because they are virus machines Indoctrinating children that only Government can tell them when they are safe. Gov't imposed child abuse

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