Puzzle Answer is below!
Did you know?
“Emotional exhaustion is this sense of overwhelmingness. Overwhelmed to the point where you feel like you don’t have the capacity to deal anymore. It’s physical tiredness. It’s mental tiredness. It’s difficult concentrating. It’s all the things that we experience when we’re just at our capacity.”
Vaile Wright, Senior Director of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association, from USA TODAY
Today is known as #BlueMonday and there are no celebrations with the added kick of Covid to what is regarded as the most depressing day of the year. However, even without the warmth of the weather and with Christmas bills to pay, at least one of the Twiterati have come up with a good solution to the Covid aspect of this unholy trinity as seen in the tweet below:
(Unrelated to the author, inclusion based on Fair Use/Fair Dealing for commentary and review)
Dealing with Emotional Exhaustion
The USA Today article above discussed this feeling many are experiencing as a reaction to the “frustrating, heartbreaking, unpredictable events of the past months”. The article provides some useful advice in determining whether a person has in fact reached a level of emotional exhaustion. As well there are what are considered excellent and creative suggestions of what can be done to combat the onset of this threat to mental health, including thinking about what “refills you emotionally“.
In this latter regard, this is why we have tried through our daily free puzzles and our puzzle books to provide a fun diversion for mental health positivity. As noted previously in our post of January 14 2020 – Brain Games; Double the Challenge, Double the Fun?, a benefit of completing a puzzle challenge can be not only an emotional but physical uplifting experience. Some have even gone further in that doing puzzles can affect mood, memory, and concentration, as a means of mood enhancement and lowering stress levels in 7 Surprising Ways Puzzles Are Good for Your Brain.
As per the Township of North Dumfries Facebook post this morning, today “it’s ok not to be ok“, so please accept our puzzle as one step in raising morale, spirits and awareness of mental health concerns around us.
Puzzle
How far must the string be pulled in order for one clockwise revolution of the large cog?
Skills
Attention to Detail, Logical Thinking, Pattern Identification, Visual Logic
Answer
No distance! Pulling the string will make the cog rotate in a counter clockwise direction.
