Wellbeing Tips

Tips and resources to support your mental health and wellbeing.

Coping Calendar

This Coping Calendar has 30 suggested actions to look after ourselves and each other.

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How to take care of your mental health

  1. Stay connected — keep in touch by phone, social media or video calls
  2. Keep moving — exercise to relieve stress
  3. Stick to a routine — keep regular sleeping and eating patterns
  4. Switch off — take a break from the news if it feels overwhelming
  5. Reach out — activate your support network or reach out for professional help 

 Resources and helpful websites

  • It’s important to do things that help us to cope and maintain good mental health. Medicare Mental Health's website has ways to stay mentally healthy.

  • Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live. 

  • The Beyond Blue anxiety and depression checklist asks you to reflect on your feelings over the past four weeks. Together, these 10 questions measure how distressed you’ve been recently, by signs of depression and anxiety. It is a measure of distress commonly used by Australian GPs and mental health professionals to determine what level of support you may require.

  • Black Dog Institute's mental health check-in is your weekly personal mental health check-in during coronavirus.
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