Shine, a community and app that addresses anxiety, has put together a toolkit of resources for anxiety and your mental health in a global climate of uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their website, which has been designed in partnership with Mental Health America, contains information around financial fears, isolation, anxiety, answers from experts and more.

We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we realize things will be different. Just as going to the airport is forever different from how it was before 9/11, things will change and this is the point at which they changed. The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.

Read the full article from Harvard Business Review by clicking on the link below.

Let’s start with the assumption that everyone capable of understanding current events is living in a state somewhere between “kind of stressed” and “extremely anxious.” That’s natural. Infectious disease outbreaks are one of the most distressing forms of disaster to deal with psychologically because of the uncertainty they cause.

Read the full article from the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at the State University of New York at New Paltz by clicking below.