Mental Health Support

and while we have to do as much as we can to try to pull it out of the abyss, at the same time we have to preserve our own sanity and not fall into despair. It seems to me that the only way to do that is to do the things that still make life worth living. I think about all the artists, writers and musicians and others that continued to create through terrible times of war and other disasters, working not only to memorialize the experience but to keep themselves mentally alive and even find joy in their art. Or we can head out and enjoy nature (while we still have it), or just hang with friends and family. Doing this is not ignoring the crisis; it's saving yourself to deal with it.