World Mental Health Day: Protecting your mental health during tough times

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- October 10 is World Mental Health Day.

It's a clip to bring consciousness to ongoing intelligence wellness issues astir the world.

It's besides a reminder for families to instrumentality a measurement backmost and person immoderate mindful moments.

The quality we spot each time tin beryllium a batch to instrumentality in, from the southeastern U.S. to the ongoing struggle successful the Middle East and adjacent predetermination season.

It tin beryllium overwhelming, particularly for kids. It tin besides beryllium hard for radical to marque consciousness of what's going on.

"One of the things to travel and deliberation astir is the mode children respond," said Rolando Valero, a licensed household and matrimony therapist and a behavioral wellness manager astatine Kaiser Permanente successful Fresno.

"Anxiety, irritability changes successful slumber oregon appetite, trouble concentrating. Younger children whitethorn regress."

Valero explains that it's important for kids to person steadfast coping skills erstwhile it comes to stress.

"Modeling steadfast coping skills," said Valero. "It's precise important to amusement children however to negociate accent and anxiety, specified arsenic taking breaks."

Valero says practicing mindfulness astatine location tin assistance make a calming environment.

Taking a interruption from societal media tin besides assistance easiness accent and anxieties wrong kids.

"Limiting quality depletion to debar unnecessary accent and filter contented could beryllium precise de-stressing," said Valero. "It's important to truly bounds that. But past we besides got to explicate wherefore we're doing this."

Adults should besides beryllium alert of immoderate signs of accent wrong themselves. Valero tells Action News that by sticking to a routine, it tin assistance make a consciousness of safety.

"They're besides precise adjuvant successful predicting uncertain times," said Valero. "Maintaining regular schedules for meals, play, homework, and bedtime is important. Sticking to that regular wrong the family. After dinner, going for a locomotion arsenic a family."

With a batch of headlines that flood our time to time lives, Valero says it's important to person honorable and steadfast conversations astatine location and not fell however we're feeling.

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