How To Looking After Your Mental Health During Lockdown

The world that we live in right now is incredibly difficult, our NHS professionals & key workers who are doing everything they can to keep us safe while they risk their own health. On Friday I posted an emotional post on Instagram, explaining that personally my mental health had been struggling ad that working from home had been really tough for me but I completely understand how important it is for me to be at home to save lives. So how can you look after your mental health while on lockdown? Here are things that I’m doing that have helped me.

Talk About How You Feel

This is such an important step, one that I’ve found to be incredibly helpful. Knowing that you are not alone is sometimes half the battle. A lot of people right now are struggling because we find ourselves in unchartered territory, and it can be an incredibly overwhelming feeling, but one thing I do know, is we are not alone in this and we will get there.

Set Realistic Goals

I’m always the worst for this because I am such an overachiever, I don’t like to let people down, and sometimes the goals that I choose are not realistic. I cannot be expected to conquer the world in 8 hours, it just isn’t going to happen. Make a point of writing down a to do list of things that need to be done first and ot the same at lunch time, that way you have your day set up and if anything does come up you know exactly what needs to be done.

Focus On Yourself

Focus on what you are doing, what you can do to make your life easier, to hep you be able to cope with the incredibly uncertain world that we find ourselves in. Everyone copes differently when it comes to things like this and when you start comparing yourself to how others are coping you’re only setting yourself up for more upset. Focus on what you are doing and let others cope with the way they do.

Ask For Help

This is something I still genuinely struggle with, I hate to admit when I need help, mainly because I am way to stubborn for my own good, and I also have way too much pride. I don’t like to put other people out of their own way, or even sometimes admit that something is wrong. You are never alone and asking for help is sometimes necessary step to make sure that we are able to cope with everything.

Cry If You Need To

Sometimes a good old fashion cry really helps me. It releases all of the options that have built up inside and it finally feels like someone has pressed the release button. Like I said in my Instagram post (if you didn’t see it) there genuinely hasn’t been a day where I haven’t cried or sobbed my heart out, but I’m working on it. I’m determined that there will be a couple of days next week where I don’t cry and I don’t let my anxiety overpower me.

Know that even though you are struggling a lot right now, that  you are doing the best thing or yourself, your loved ones and our incredible NHS. The true heroes of all this are our amazing healthcare professionals, our emergency services and key workers.

Do your best with everything going on right now it is all anyone can ever ask of you.

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