Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here’s how to help them
How to Cope with being Touch Starved– “Whether we accept it or not, humans need physical touch or skin-to-skin contact to maintain good health and well-being.”
But, I will ask challenge you to go read the article because whether you give a coupon or not, the ideas are solid examples of the kinds of things you can do for someone you care about who is struggling. Often we avoid someone who we know is struggling because we are uncomfortable, not knowing what to do to help them. Well, here you go. Here are 21 things you can do. If you’re in proximity to the person, you can help them with necessary chores like laundry or grocery shopping, or simply accompany them on a walk. If you are maintaining contact with them at a distance, you can still have coffee together, offer a safe place to vent, or assist them with medicine copays. There are plenty of other ideas in the coupons and maybe just thinking about some of these examples will inspire some ideas of your own that would be appreciated by the folks you know.
What else? What can you do for the folks who need someone to simply be there and offer to help do something? Anything.
Or, what was something that someone did for you when you were struggling? What do you wish someone had done?
Feel free to share your own ideas.
You don’t need to become a multi-millionaire to be a successful survivor, but you do have to survive first. In his case it was a miraculous survival after jumping off a bridge. In your case it may simply be staying on the path to healing no matter how hard it may seem at times. As…
When I was depressed I not only had a hard time finding the energy to get into a hobby, but I also struggled in another way that I think this really resonates with: “In fact, finding an engaging hobby can help us each find true joy. Because if we find a hobby that exposes us…
I know for me, stress management was both a big part of what I learned and worked on during therapy, and continues to be an important part of self-care. This is something worth considering: “In today’s society, the habitual way of dealing with stress is to fight, escape, avoid, or reluctantly put up with it,…
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It’s the insistence that everyone around you also is positive all the time, demanding “Good Vibes Only” as the article points out, that worries me. Because people in real pain, social issues that cause real harm, etc. are not good vibes. When a team was winning gold medals, no one wanted to do more than focus on that success, and repeated stories of abuse went ignored. Is our constant need for positivity forcing us to ignore racism, homelessness, abuse, and many other social issues that we need to do more than give passing support to on social media?
Maybe most importantly, are there people in our lives right now hurting, who desperately need our support, who we are ignoring because they bring us down?
