Helping Others Can Help You Cope With Lockdown

Helping Others Can Help You Cope With Lockdown
Setting our sights on creating a better shared future can help pull us through difficult times. G-Stock Studio/Shutterstock
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It’s easy to feel like we’re swirling in a COVID-19-induced vortex of helplessness.

Our first instinct may be to hunker down and protect ourselves and our immediate families. But to get through these times with our sanity and well-being intact, we may need to push back on this initial impulse. Research shows that when we put a high priority on reaching out to others, our own mental and physical health flourish.

Elizabeth Svoboda
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