Obviously we all are concerned about our physical health, what with a global pandemic currently happening at the moment. But when was the last time you did a mental health check in? Last week? Last month? Last year?<\/p>\n
With social distancing and shelter-in-place regulations, it’s natural to feel lonely and isolated right now. Add on to that the stress of living in a pandemic, and it’s a prime environment for mental health issues like anxiety and depression to manifest, or even spiral out of control.<\/p>\n
I’m thankful that the ACU Medical and Counseling Care Center has created resources on maintaining emotional and mental health<\/a>. I hope you’ll take a chance to look at them and develop some good routines and practices to help yourself stay mentally healthy during this time. The MACCC is also providing counseling services remotely, so if you are part of the ACU community, you can still take advantage of these services by filling out an intake form<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are a lot of other good resources available out there to help you stay mentally healthy, including apps like Headspace or ThinkUp (they have paid and free versions) – if you suspect that you’re not doing as well as you’d like mentally, don’t just wait for it to get better, take action now. Ask one person to help keep you accountable to staying mentally well during this hard time.<\/p>\n What other things have you done to help yourself stay healthy? Feel free to share them below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obviously we all are concerned about our physical health, what with a global pandemic currently happening at the moment. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6575,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36085],"tags":[208120,2534,208100,188147,208118],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-check-in","tag-counseling","tag-covid-19","tag-mental-health","tag-social-distancing","comments-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/files\/2020\/04\/My-Post.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vb94-hy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}