Will you still continue to work or will you stay at home?
Will you be furloughed again or does the threat of redundancy post December 2nd feel more real.
Be sure to look at all the supportive measures that you can. Keeping mentally healthy is important.
Maybe ring up that relative that you forgot to yesterday to check that they will be ok.
Arrange a Zoom/Skype/MS teams/ Facebook (other virtual mediums available) meeting to say hi and make sure that you don’t feel alone.
Maybe do something nice today. Cook a nice meal and share a photo. Buy some flowers or chocolates for those you live with.
Start planning your evening viewing or turn the tv off and read a book that is sitting there gathering dust which you promised yourself that you would read weeks or even years ago
Maybe you can play a board game.
Maybe sing along to a song from your voluminous vinyl record/ cd or Spotify collection.
If you are artistic then maybe this is the opportunity to produce something.
Write a book, poem or draw a picture.
Just because life produces lemons you don’t have to be bitter.
Smile ( even under your mask) it does produce endorphins and who knows, someone else may smile back.
The sun will put his hat on and you will reply hip hip hurrah or am I going to far now!
Joseph Campling lives in Buckinghamshire, and is married with adult children.
He trained as a both a General and Mental Health Nurse in the South East of the United Kingdom in the mid 1980’s and has worked in various roles over the past 30 years.
His first authored article in 2007 was jointly written about the need to share positive research based practice amongst care teams locally which was then published in a professional journal.
He published “Mild Musings May Mitigate My Mentality” which was his first collection of poems in 2018.
He has subsequently published MERRING or is it MRS GREN?
Having written sporadically over the years (usually for friends and family) he has been writing more consistently over the past two years and has begun to recite his poetry at various Open Mic nights and Spoken Word events. He is often found ‘scribbling’ and then performing what he has just written.
He recently has also been collaborating with a jazz composer by writing lyrics which have been put to music.
His interests include watching live music, trying to play the guitar (still project in progress) and quizzing. He also likes to watch TV; mostly factual documentaries, comedy and quiz shows
He also needs to read more and swears that he will do so very soon as he has a pile of books to read.
He also ‘hangs out’ with members of the local drama club although he has no plans to act but is partial to the odd pint of orange juice and lemonade!!
He follows rugby and can sometimes be found cheering his team on (London Irish) whether they win or lose.
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