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7 Ways to Protect Your Mental Health While Isolating
For single parents who are home on their own with the kids, it can be more important than ever to take care of your mental health.
Being a single parent is stressful under the best of circumstances. In times like these, when you’re home alone with the kids without even the respite of school or daycare, that stress goes into overdrive. It doesn’t take much at all for you to tip over into dangerous territory, where you might snap at your kids or give up on parenting at all.
Luckily, there are still some things you can do to protect your mental health even without another adult or a break of any kind. Try these simple tips to keep yourself feeling calm, relaxed, and hopeful.
Limit your exposure to social media and the news
This is a tip that everyone is offering and that I’ve offered more than once. That’s because it is a critical step to protecting your mental health.
The news instills fear. Social media shares information without confirmation about its truthfulness and offers insight only into the best side of people’s lives. Both of those only serve to make you feel fearful, inadequate, and frustrated.
