Good evening, everybody. How are you all doing? Getting through the week, looking out for

yourselves, taking care of yourself, taking care of those around you. Yeah? All right. How's your

mental health doing? We're checking in on that. Take a second and actually answer that. Is there

anything you need? Do you need to socialize more? Do you need to actually say no and back away

from some plans? Maybe you need to kind of restructure your thinking.

Are you dramatizing or catastrophizing anything?

You're keeping everything right sized?

Remember, depression tends to be either something in our lives needs fixing or changing, or

we have a what they call the negative triad we have too much of a negative

sense of self others or the future and we don't know what's to come and again remember our

brain and thinking has a negativity bias that's protective we tend to personalize bias catastrophize

and not root our thinking in reality. So ask yourself, is the

story that I'm telling myself accurate? And is it right sized with what's actually occurring? We tend

to crank things up. Usually, we crank them down. Remember, scale zero to 10, anything five or

above is about abuse or violence.

Otherwise, it's annoying and frustrating.

We want to crank it down and kind of roll with it.

That's the global check-in.

Got anxiety?

Ask yourself, am I really giving weight and meaning to the resources and coping that I have access to?

And taking advantage of that.

You know, for feeling a lot of anxiety, it might be a sign that you are appraising the severity

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