Awareness months and platitudes about self-care only go so far. We also need these changes to make a difference.
Your favorite Instagram influencer can post about self-care all day, showing glamorous pictures of bubble baths and retreats. Leaders across the country can offer lip service on the need to address mental health. A company can send an email to its employees honoring Mental Health Awareness Month.lives with a mental health condition. The COVID-19 crisis has likely added to this figure, leading to what mental health experts colloquially call a second pandemic.
Here are just a few of the actual changes mental health professionals say we need from inside ourselves, in our homes and across the country right now:When did you first learn to deep-breathe your way through a stressful situation? Potentially not early enough, according to, a licensed educational psychologist, board-certified behavior analyst and author of “Winnie & Her Worries.”
She is teaching children as young as 3 how to compartmentalize problems and reduce anxiety through her own programs ― and she said many more educational systems like this need to exist.“We need to be addressing ways to cope with everyday stressors at a young age. I get them as teenagers and it is so difficult because they have established poor coping mechanisms,” she said. “Those teenagers become adults and then we’ve got this huge problem.
She wants parents to stop trying to “save the day” for their toddlers, instead of helping them handle situations on their own with parental guidance. includes parents evaluating how they handle stress themselves, as kids are watching and learning from them.
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