These resources are not meant to replace professional treatment, but rather to support your mental health care. Explore the information and tips, drawing from them what works for you.
MANAGING COVID-19 FEARS
It’s natural to feel anxious at this time – the worry pushes us to take action to protect ourselves, which is a good thing. But when this worry gets too much or can’t be switched off at all, we need to help our mind and body come back to the present, realising the scary story we’re telling ourselves is not real in this moment.
A sense of looming threat, uncertainty and lack of control fuel anxiety, igniting panic in some of us. Below are a few resources for you to use in managing the fear. Approach your fear not as something awful to get away from, but as a scared child to comfort & soothe.
If you’re battling with intense fear, constant anxiety, disturbed sleep, are having trouble getting through your day, or are finding self-isolation/quarantine really tough, you can book an online session. Click here for more details
Write out a plan that includes the steps you have the power to take: WHO | CDC
When you hear/think something scary, remind yourself…
Help your immune system by using these relaxation techniques daily
Try out these 7 science-based coping strategies
Explore mindfulness to live in the now, instead of future ‘what ifs’
A mindfulness meditation to bring you into the present
Learn how to talk to your anxious child / teen
Guidance from the Child Mind Institute on talking to your child
Ways to cope with social distancing
Guidance on social distancing, quarantine, isolation
How to care for one another at this time
Take an online SA meditation class for R60/R80
Tour America’s Yosemite National Park
Find more SA-specific info & helpline details here
TAKE A SCREENING TEST
(please note that this is not a diagnosis)
SLEEP PROBLEMS
Alpha brainwave music to fall asleep
ANXIETY
When social situations cause fear
Returning to calm with the power breath
GRIEF
SEXUAL HEALTH
RESILIENCE
COPING SKILLS
How to cope with difficult feelings
Free breathing app to help manage intense emotions iOS
Free breathing app to help manage intense emotions Android
Audio guide on unhelpful thinking styles
RELATIONSHIPS
Noticing unhelpful communication styles
Learning relationship-friendly ways of communicating
VIDEOS
PODCASTS
Finding a way through the grief of losing a loved one to COVID-19
CINEMATHERAPY
(films on mental health / existence / meaning / the human spirit)