Helpful Tips For Mental Health In Times Of The Corona Virus

Rory WolfMental Health

The coronavirus crisis is changing the everyday life, behavior and perspective of many people. Mental Health has put together tips on how people can support their mental health now.

The coronavirus primarily affects the body – but those who constantly follow the news, are required to minimize social contacts or even go into quarantine at home, can also get on their minds. Below are 8 tips from Mental Health on how to take care of your mental health now.

Get information from trustworthy sources. Limit yourself to only getting information from sources such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Commission, or reliable national organizations.

Set yourself a limit on COVID-19 news; try to avoid excessive media use. Constantly waiting for news and constantly reloading the social media feed can add to worry. Think about switching off notifications on your mobile phone and taking a deliberate “message break”. Setting a limit on reading, listening to, and watching the news allows you to focus instead on everyday life and those areas of life that you can influence yourself. In this way you avoid mind games like “what if …”. WHO recommends that information (only factual) be used primarily when it comes to practical steps to prepare for and protect yourself and others.

Take care of yourself! In times of the corona virus, self-care means concentrating on what you have in your own hands and can control (e.g. appropriate hygiene) instead of what you cannot influence (e.g. stopping the virus). Live your everyday life and your routines wherever possible: eat healthy, get enough sleep, do things that you enjoy. Consider developing a new daily routine that focuses on your mental health and positive attitudes. Activities like walking, meditation, or fitness can help you relax and will have a positive effect on your thoughts and feelings. The Mental Health Foundation recommends, for example, to see opportunities in the situation – e.g. that you finally get enough sleep.

Keep in touch and support the people around you. Keeping in touch with family and friends can reduce stress. Talking to them about worries and feelings may help you better deal with the challenges of the crisis. Whoever receives support and care gives them a feeling of security. Helping others in need and making contact with someone who may feel alone or concerned helps both the person being supported and the supporter. Many people also wonder what they would do in the case of quarantine. While the idea of ​​self-quarantine may seem daunting, keep in mind that it is only a temporary measure and that there are many digital ways to get in touch with others on a regular basis.

Stay hopeful and think positively. Try to focus on the positive things in life. The WHO recommends looking specifically for sources of information that spread positive news from people in the region who have contracted COVID-19 and have recovered. Or stories of people who have accompanied a loved one in the recovery process and are ready to share their experiences.

Acknowledge your feelings. It is quite normal to have large emotional reactions in the current situation, whether it be feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, or sad. Allow yourself these feelings, perceive them and express them, for example by recording them in a diary, talking to others about them, creatively processing them or meditating.

Take the time to talk to your children about the situation. Children also need help in dealing with stress and protection from corona hysteria. Answer their questions and explain facts about the virus that children can understand. Respond in a supportive manner, listen to the children’s concerns, and give them an extra dose of affection, attention, and support. Show the children that they are safe but also that it is okay to be sad. Show them how to be positive about stress yourself so they can learn from you.

Get professional support. Follow protection and prevention recommendations from healthcare professionals. If none of this helps, consider getting support from a professional counseling center or looking for someone affected in a similar situation. Self-help groups are usually organized locally and nationally, so it is best to first find out whether there are any offers in your area. In this way you can find contact persons who in turn know contact points in regional health care. Search terms such as “self-help group” + your location or “psychological counseling” + your location can help you. There are many ways to get a grip on your fears of the virus and to protect and care for your own mental health and that of friends and family. Remember: This pandemic will pass and there are always offers of help. Taking a proactive attitude can help protect your mental health during times of great uncertainty.

The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is currently turning our everyday life as we knew it completely upside down. Closed schools mean that children and young people are just as much at home as many adults are in the home office. Some shops and facilities will remain closed until further notice.

The economic losses raise existential questions. Basically, there is a strict ban on contact, which significantly restricts social life – and suspected cases such as returnees from risk areas or close contact persons of infected people are quarantined at home.

These protective measures are aimed at reducing social contact to a minimum, since contact with other people can pose a potential risk of infection. The reduction in interpersonal contact presents us as social beings with great psychological challenges, as does dealing with the overall situation and the resulting uncertainty.

Support in dealing with the overall situation

There is something very threatening about uncertain situations like this. Our need for security and control can hardly be met in such situations. It can quickly happen that a strong fear arises that we can no longer calm down.

In the current situation in particular, various components are uncertain: How long will the current restrictions persist? Will I or will relatives get sick? With what outcome? How will my professional situation continue? These and other questions remain open for the time being.

When dealing with such uncertainty and fear, it can help first of all to become aware of what is in our own hands and what is not. We can then also tackle what we ourselves have an influence on, e.g. to ensure adequate hygiene with regular hand washing as well as when sneezing and coughing – in the crook of the arm – also to comply with the regulations for public life and physical contacts as far as possible possible to reduce. In addition, our ability to influence the situation as a whole is very limited.

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What Is Counseling And Psychotherapy? And How Do I Get There?

Rory WolfPsychotherapy

It is part of life that stress occurs from time to time. Because health, love, family and work don’t always work the way we’d like them to.

Most of the time, people get along well with such serious times. You have learned to cope with difficult situations, disappointments and defeats on your own or with the help of others, e.g. friends. Certain life events can also be better coped with with the help of a self-help group, with people who are in the same situation.

There can also be stresses that are too heavy, no longer stop or keep coming back. In which even friends and self-help groups cannot help enough. Then it makes sense to seek psychological help. Counseling or therapy can also help to understand yourself better or to develop more self-confidence. In short: when someone has the feeling that they want to change something in their life.

In individual cases it is not so easy to distinguish between them. In general:

  • Why: Counseling aims more at the solution of a clearly defined problem (e.g. separation difficulties), psychotherapy more at a comprehensive change of the relationship a person has to himself and to his environment.
  • How: Psychotherapy usually takes place in personal conversations. It is usually the same for advice, but advice is also available over the phone or online.
  • For whom: Both counseling and therapy are offered for individuals, couples, families and groups.
  • How long: Counseling tends to be limited in time, psychotherapy tends to be long-term. Nevertheless, there is also long-term advice and short-term therapy.

If the psychological suffering really overwhelms you or if there are changes in consciousness (eg “hearing voices”), treatment with medication, so-called psychotropic drugs, can help. This is possible either on an outpatient basis or in a psychiatric hospital.

As a rule of thumb, advice or therapy is not a shame, it’s a service! It is better to seek a conversation at an early stage, before the problems get too overwhelming! Better to talk to someone than swallow pills!

Psychological counseling

Psychological counseling can relate to all areas of life: marriage and partnership, school and upbringing, addiction and drugs, etc. The corresponding counseling centers are then for example marriage and life counseling centers or youth and family counseling centers, etc. They already exist in smaller towns. Usually they are run by the commune or one of the two large churches.

Advice is not financed by the health insurance. Depending on the economic and political situation, the city, the country and other organizations assume the costs. Those seeking advice often pay part of the cost, either at a flat rate or according to their financial capabilities. In certain cases, the social welfare agency can also cover the costs of advice via the Federal Social Welfare Act.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapists can be contacted directly. No medical referral is required. However, if psychotherapy is approved by the health insurance fund, a medical examination is necessary to rule out physical causes for the difficulties.

Psychotherapeutic treatments by medical and psychological psychotherapists as well as by child and adolescent psychotherapists are financed by the health insurance. The following psychotherapeutic procedures are currently recognized by the health insurers: psychoanalysis, therapy based on depth psychology, behavioral therapy and, more recently, systemic therapy. Other procedures usually have to be paid for privately.

It should be considered: if psychotherapy is financed by health insurance, the therapist must write an anonymized report to an expert as soon as long-term therapy is applied for. This expert then recommends to the health insurance company whether and for how long the therapy should continue to be paid for. These reports are sent to the health insurance company in a sealed envelope.

The clerk at the health insurance company is not allowed to see this envelope, ie only the reviewer receives the report. In addition, a corresponding diagnosis must be made, as the health insurance companies only cover the costs of illnesses. Such a diagnosis can cause problems when taking out private supplementary insurance.

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Unsolved Mysteries Of The 20th Century

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Unsolved Mysteries Of The 20th Century

With all of the technological advancements of our modern world, there remains many interesting, and often sinister, events that have gone unsolved or raised doubts in peoples’ minds. From damsels in distress to the mob, here are two of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century.

What happened to Marilyn Monroe?

While the death of Marilyn Monroe was ruled as a suicide, further facts uncovered from the star’s death in 1944 indicate she could have been a murder victim. It was believed Monroe had an affair with John F. Kennedy, continuing to see him after he became President of the United States. After the affair ended, Monroe became close to Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy’s brother. Growing closer to the Kennedy family, Monroe became privy to many secrets about the family which she shared with close friends. Robert Kennedy visited Monroe’s home on the day she died.

On 27th June 1962, Monroe had been busy organizing a dinner at her home. People who saw Monroe on this day recall that she seemed depressed and sick appearing under the influences of pills.

Later that day, Robert Kennedy and Monroe’s doctor, Dr. Greenson, visited her home as recalled by a neighbor who witnessed the pair entering the home. It has been reported the neighbor received threats to keep this sighting confidential.

In the early evening the son of famous baseball player Joe DiMaggio tried to call Marilyn, however, her housekeeper said she was not at home. Monroe called Dr. Greenson at about 8pm that night informing the doctor she was feeling much better. After retiring for the evening, one of Monroe’s staff informed the public that 11pm Monroe was dying or could be dead.

Two days after her death, Monroe was meant to have a press conference in which she had promised to divulge information to the public. Monroe’s diary containing this information, the police report and other documents went missing and have since not been found. These events raise many questions around the real cause of her death.

Al Capone and Edward O’Hare

The early 1900’s saw a large rise in the power and perilous activities of criminal gangs. Chicago O’Hare international Airport is named after a World War II hero, Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare. O’Hare’s rise to fame catapulted to the public arena for his heroic efforts in World War II and the alleged murder of his father Edward Joseph O’Hare.

O’Hare senior moved to Chicago to expand his business as a lawyer and interests in greyhound racing. He later bought the rights to the mechanical rabbit, a game-changer in the greyhound racing industry. The gambling industry at that time, was controlled by Al Capone meaning O’Hare senior ended up working with Capone and other mob partners to operate racetracks around America. After continued growth in his gambling businesses, federal agents were trying to find a way to convict Capone and put an end to his crooked business operations.

On 8 November 1939, O’Hare senior was fatally shot by several men from a car that had been following him. These men have never been identified and the murder remains unsolved. It is thought O’Hare senior’s ties to federal agents, from his previous work as a lawyer, resulted in him being a key proponent in helping prosecutors to convict Capone of tax evasion in 1939. O’Hare senior was killed one week before Capone was released from Alcatraz.

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