Three mental hygiene habits to beat Covid-19 and set up a healthier New Normal

In a new sur­vey by the Kaiser Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion, 45% of Amer­i­cans felt that the coro­n­avirus cri­sis is harm­ing their men­tal health (19% felt it had a “major impact”).

Our tra­di­tion­al media and social media feeds are filled with urgent and often con­flict­ing imper­a­tives to change our rou­tines and be con­stant­ly vigilant.

The online onslaught of rapid­ly updat­ing media sto­ries report­ing worst-case sce­nar­ios can fuel fear and pan­ic. Uncrit­i­cal over­con­sump­tion of such mes­sages can erode one of our most pre­cious and essen­tial human resources for weath­er­ing the COVID-19 storm: our men­tal health. –> Keep read­ing my arti­cle 3 ways to pro­tect your men­tal health dur­ing – and after – COVID-19, co-authored with Emory Uni­ver­si­ty’s Dr. Karen Rom­melfanger, over at the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Glob­al Agen­da.

Related resources on stress, physical and mental health:

• Explor­ing the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)
• On World Health Day 2020, let’s dis­cuss the stress response and the Gen­er­al Adap­ta­tion Syn­drome (2/3)
• The frontal lobes, the lit­tle brain down under and “Stayin’ Alive” (3/3)