Mental Health Reset 2022: Striving for Stability
2 min readMar 7, 2022
During 2020 and 2021, depression, anxiety, unstable moods, social isolation, and existential fear shattered our peace and wore everyone down.
Now that 2022 is here and the pandemic’s end is somewhere in sight, resolve to put your mental health back in order. Experts describe steps on how to move forward and reclaim your emotional equilibrium:
- Anchor your day with a morning routine.
- Reach out to others to stave off isolation.
- Find low-stress ways to connect from a distance.
- Take an in-depth relationship inventory.
- Find fun, creative activities to boost your spirits.
- Exercise regularly — ideally outdoors.
- Use mindfulness and meditation to stay present.
- Try out a mental health app.
- Make restoring good sleep a priority.
- Eat healthfully.
- Seek immediate help if you’re endangered.
- Address substance abuse and relapse.
- Choose and express gratitude.
- Remember to be kind to yourself.
- Look for light and hope at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
- Hang in there.
The most common mental health issues arising during the pandemic are also the most common issues in general, says Dr. Don Mordecai, the national leader for mental health and wellness at Kaiser Permanente.
