Coping With A Crisis

Dr. Kory Carey shares tips for everyone to use while coping with a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coping Tips:

• Stay connected to your social network.
• Stay in touch with family, friends and healthy support.
• Share your time volunteering, online or in person at a safe distance, if you feel healthy and are under 60.
• Help neighbors in need.
• Avoid coping with drugs and alcohol.
• Be aware of your own limits: know when it’s time to take a break from news and other media.
• Find a new normal and build a routine.
• Seek professional help.

When to Seek Professional Mental Health Help:

• Unable to perform daily functions.
• Have thoughts of self-harm, suicide or harming others.
• Experience pervasive sadness or anxiety.
• Unable to bounce back.

Kory Carey, Ph.D. HSPP

Volunteers of America

Ohio & Indiana