Tips For Supporting Your Mental Health During The Holidays

Two mental health experts join Reset to share advice for handling life during the pandemic.

In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for elders
Marguerite Mouille, left, is greeted by her grandson Thierry Mouille at a nursing home in Kaysesberg, eastern France, Monday Dec. 21, 2020. Jean-Francois Badias / ASSOCIATED PRESS
In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for elders
Marguerite Mouille, left, is greeted by her grandson Thierry Mouille at a nursing home in Kaysesberg, eastern France, Monday Dec. 21, 2020. Jean-Francois Badias / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tips For Supporting Your Mental Health During The Holidays

Two mental health experts join Reset to share advice for handling life during the pandemic.

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Staying mentally healthy through the pandemic has been uniquely challenging for many people, especially those who have lost loved ones and people experiencing isolation due to social distancing.

Reset brings on two mental health experts to give advice on what you can do to care for your mental wellbeing, particularly over the holidays and as you plan for the coming year.

GUESTS: Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, licensed clinical psychologist; associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Jacob Fyda, MD board-certified psychiatrist for Chicago area nursing homes and long-term care facilities