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Information overload, rumors and misinformation can make your life feel out of control and make it unclear what to do.
Mayo Clinic, COVID-19 and your mental health
Self-care strategies
Self-care strategies identified by the Mayo Clinic include three key categories: 1) Taking care of your body, 2) Taking care of your mind; and 3) Connecting with others. Considering the second of these prescriptions, elements thereof that stand out include limiting exposure to news media, staying busy and focusing on positive thoughts. Our suggestion is that games can assist in the latter regard, in offering a break from the world, a distraction from the negative and with positive outcomes in forging solutions to workable problems. Perhaps the latter aspect offers the most promise in taking back the ability to control one’s situation, to deal with something in an organized manner. You may not be able to answer or succeed in every game, but it’s the process in attempting to find the solution that is most important. In a sense, it’s the journey that matters and not the destination. By focussing on something else, that is without negative or detrimental effects or consequences, just for a moment, just as a break from every day stresses, and now more importantly from the unique challenges of Covid, societal divisions and isolatIons felt around the world, you can take back some control over the chaos.
Chaos does not have to be understood to be managed. In this sense, if you can take a small step to maintaining mental health in these trying times, you are going down the road to positive self-care. As U.S. President Joe Biden so aptly and eloquently intoned this date that democracy is fragile, so is our mental health. So to the extent you can find positivity and reap the benefits of building a cognitive reserve to increase your mental health resilience, you will be able to rise to many of the challenges many face in these days and that were enumerated in Biden’s message of perseverance and strengthening to the American nation.
It is hoped that changes now underway will lead to a sense of political and health stability to reduce at least those related contributors to mental health stressors. As usual we will seek to add our small contribution through providing brain teasers, puzzles and riddles that test critical thinking, being the ability to use logic to connect information in a way that assists in making a decision or find a solution, but in a fun way. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the U.S. and the American people on this auspicious day, for hope, success and wellbeing for all.
Puzzle
What phrase does the License Plate represent?
Skills
Attention to Detail, Critical Thinking, Logical Thinking
Answer
Opportunity.
