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10 Things I'm Putting in My COVID-19 'Crisis Kit'
Creating a crisis kit is one of my favorite therapeutic techniques to help protect my mental and physical health. My personal crisis kit has been a lifesaver on many occasions, and I still keep it out openly in my house so that I can use it whenever I feel like my mental or physical health is declining. Creating a crisis kit itself, however, can be anxiety-inducing, so please take care of yourself as you read through this article and contemplate creating or modifying your personal crisis kit.
By Ashley Nestler, MSW6 years ago in Longevity
World Autism Awareness Day 2020
The month of April has arrived and there are two reasons why this month is personal to me: it’s Autism Awareness Month and today is World Autism Awareness Day. Autism Awareness Month was first recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007. Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, affects 1 in 59 children. Boys are four times affected as girls. For those who aren’t familiar with who I am, I’m on the autism spectrum. I was interviewed by Vocal for their Creator Spotlight feature about two weeks ago. They were asking about things such as cosplay and why I’m passionate about different causes. Autism awareness is one of those causes. Here’s a little bit about myself and why this month is so important to me.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 6 years ago in Longevity
10 tips to stop worrying about things we can not control
Have you ever felt like “something terrible is about to happen”? Does it feel like the worst scenario is unavoidable? Have you ever experienced waves of dark, freezing and sticky anxiety that it is impossible to shake off or ignore? I did. Many times.. Too many. At some point I started reflecting and understood that most of my fears will most likely never happen or I worry about things that are out of my control.
By Milana Alexandra6 years ago in Longevity
5 Reasons Your Are Always Feeling Exhausted
It is normal to feel exhausted sometimes especially from work, commuting, or taking care of a new baby. However, if you have to drag yourself out of bed or power yourself with coffee, there is something wrong. It is also the same story when you have to take a nap regularly under the desk mid-afternoon. This is a red flag to consult a professional for an appropriate solution to restore your energy.
By Nancy Ahuja6 years ago in Longevity
Affirmation In A Time Of Uncertainty
While COVID19 rampages the globe, I lay in my hospital bed, for reasons you might least expect. I am transgender, and decided to have an affirmation procedure, finally being able to afford it after years of planning, bureaucratic gymnastics and budgeting. I have undergone one of the most important milestones of my life in some of the most uncertain circumstances; especially regarding public health. What I am certain of is that I have made the right decision for myself. However, there are many who are now unable to, and only given how expensive it is.
By Johnny Valkyrie6 years ago in Longevity
COVID-19: I am experiencing every single emotion in one day at once.
I‘m going through every single emotion there is out there right now. One moment I‘m laughing at memes about the shit we come up with during this quarantine. The next moment I find myself absolutely paralyzed by what is happening in this world right now. Two seconds later I am crying because I can‘t even handle the pain all the families that lost someone during this time are going through. Again three seconds later I just sit there and stare at the ground. I find myself wanting to distract myself only to find myself not being okay with distracting myself. I am battling to tell myself that it is okay that I am not okay and I am arguing with the voice that says I should be productive. Productive during a global pandemic? Is that a joke? I procrastinate on normal days, heck, on days that I am happy I procrastinate but you expect me to be productive during a global pandemic? I open Instagram and I get angry. I get angry at the people that pretend like nothing is happening at all. I get angry seeing people talk about other things. Only to find myself arguing myself that these people do not know how to handle this situation either. Some are just doing their work, the work they have to do although there is a deadly virus going around. Some people need to pretend like nothing is happening to not lose their minds. They are maybe even sharing this to help others not lose their minds and keep some sort of normality going when nothing seems normal at all. I feel guilty. I feel guilty for doing something I would normally do. I feel guilty because nothing is normal for someone working in a hospital or someone working in a supermarket. I find myself longing. Longing for the ordinary things that I didn‘t even know I was taking for granted. I never believed that I could be taking it for granted that I could freely walk around a supermarket without being a health hazard for other people. I miss holding the door open for people or helping someone pick up something that fell on the ground because people are very quick to realize that they will pick it up themselves and if we pick it up for someone else we feel like it could have been a mistake. How could picking up something off the floor for someone become a mistake? I find myself confused. I find myself confused at the information I have. I don‘t understand all the ways that the virus spreads and yet I feel like I have read it all. I feel stuck between completely overreacting and completely underreacting. But I will choose overreacting at any cost of any sort of comfort even if it means washing my hands until my hands feel like dry sand. Because the risk of it all feels too heavy to even bare to think about. I find myself wanting to relax only to find myself not being able to. I find myself so exhausted yet I feel like I am not doing enough. Every single second of the day I feel the immense urge to help and to share my knowledge about mindset, mental health and psychology to help as many people as I possibly can only to find myself laying on the floor in my tiger coat and my sweatpants and unwashed hair for 40 minutes. I wish I knew an answer to what to do but I don‘t. I think everything we do right now in anyway that is getting us through this without hurting someone else of course is the right thing to do. For some it will be doing everything they possibly can, for some it will be doing things here and there and for some it will be surviving the day and this time more than ever every single one of these options is absolutely equally the right thing to do.
By happychoice by natalie6 years ago in Longevity
Should You Throw Expired Medicine?
Expired Medicine So I was rummaging through an old bag that was kept into the uncharted depths of my closet. There were a few things that I found which surprised me (as I remember very well that I had discarded them). In this wasteland of banished objects, I found some pills laying around. So just as a normal human would do if he/she found some old medicine, I checked for the expiration date. The date was of 2018. So the medicines expired sometime in 2018. But what does that mean? The pills looked fine to me. And when exactly did the pills expire? I had to dig deeper. I also dug deeper into the bag and found some old photos of me, but that’s a matter for another article.
By Pranay Mishra6 years ago in Longevity
Covid-19: Wuhan Reopens but Risk is High
On December 31 2019, the Chinese office of the World Health Organization (WHO) heard the first news of a previously unknown virus causing multiple cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, a city in eastern China with a population of over 11 million.
By Anton Black6 years ago in Longevity
Caronavirus
A few weeks ago, the world was introduced to a new threat that quickly spread throughout. It was in the form of a virus, COVID-19, or the commonly referred term, coronavirus. I remember watching the reports on tv, and not really giving it much thought at the time. Afterall, it wasn’t the first time that new viruses were discovered. It would cause concern as doctors and the public struggled to study them, and then there would be a way to stop it from spreading. However, in this case, that wasn’t the situation. As everyone tried to understand what was going on, it was being spread from city to city, country to country.
By Judith Jascha6 years ago in Longevity
What if They Gave a Pandemic
It’s only because of a telephone conversation with my friend, Nico, that I found out that Mt. Sinai is building a 70-bed tent hospital inside Central Park over in the East Meadow. That’s how small my world has gotten. The East Meadow is maybe a twenty-minute walk from here or a three-minute bus ride, but most of us aren’t riding many buses these days.
By Remington Write6 years ago in Longevity
