Stress and Anxiety about coronavirus
Given all the media coverage and shelter-in-place restrictions, it is normal to feel stressed and apprehensive about coronavirus. There are a number of resources now:
The Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook is a huge online free "self-help book" with very good explanations and techniques for stress reduction specific to coronavirus.
Mental Health America has a very large collection of online resources including tools for dealing with anxiety, financial issues, ways to connect with others, hotlines, webinars, information for parents, information for caregivers, information for older adults, information for domestic violence survivors, for LGBTQ individuals,, for veterans, and more.
SRJC's 2-Minute Review of local resources and ways to deal with coronavirus stress.
Managing Anxiety about Coronavirus: SRJC's 8 slides (in a contemporary presentation).
Protecting Your Mental Health During the Coronavirus Outbreak: 5 key steps for better mental health in these difficult times.
US Center for Disease Control (CDC)'s Guide to Stress & Coping (y en espanol): Information on the stress of outbreaks, how everyone reacts differently, ways to cope with stress, information for parents, information for people at risk for serious illness, for people coming out of quarantine, and for responders.
Sonoma County's Mental Health & Wellness Site: Tips on dealing with the stress, local resources and hotlines
Reducing Stigma: How coronavirus can lead to stigma, and what you can do.
Expressive Writing Exercise website specific to COVID that relieves stress.
That Discomfort Your Feeling is Grief and How to Grieve the Losses from Coronavirus. Two articles on how the stress we are feeling is also about the loss of doing activities we are used to.
Ways to Deal with Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation
Coronavirus sanity guide from the 10% Happier site, includes podcasts, blogs, meditations, and talks.
Assemblyman Marc Levine's list of Local Resources: Additional resources, hotlines and more.
A 20-Minute video that discusses ways coronavirus issues make us anxious and ways to deal.