How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety

This is a stressful time.  Here are some articles about managing the stress and anxiety that you may have.

• Coping with Compassion/Disaster Fatigue (click the link for the definition):  Tips for Disaster Responders (pdf) by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• Ways to Cope with the Anxiety Spiral (aka Catastrophic Thinking) (click the link for the definition):  Don't Go Down a COVID Spiral article by Wired and an article on How to Stop an Anxious Thought in its Tracks by Huffpost
• Keeping the Cabin Fever Creepies at Bay
• Once you have prepared for your new-found home time, take a deep breath and know you have done everything you can. Remember you can only control what you can control.
  • Letting go of worry by Psychology Today
  • How to stop dwelling a simple practice to let go of anxious thoughts posted by Uplift Connect
• Ask yourself “what will this worry accomplish?” If the answer is “not much” then let go.
• Yoga for stress and anxiety
• How to meditate with anxiety – by Mindful.org
• Exercise!  See next drop down menu.

Credit to Olympic College Recreation for compiling this list.