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Friendship & Mental Health – text version of the flyer
Show your friends you are there for them by encouraging these coping strategies:
- Yoga: take a class, stream a video, download an app.
- Physical activity: ride a bike, walk, stretch.
- Breathing exercises: inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8.
- Volunteer: animal shelter, senior living, food pantry.
- Find a hobby: read, paint, dance.
- Hang out with friends: go to the park, watch a movie, have a game night.
- Practice gratitude: write down things you are grateful for.
- Spend time in nature: take a hike, watch the sunset, stargaze.
Look out for your friends if they…
- Don't want to hang out anymore
- Feel sad or hopeless
- Are distracted during conversations
- Have lost interest in activities
- Have a negative view on life activities
Support your friends by…
- Listening to them
- Inviting them to social gatherings
- Sending them a care package
- Encouraging them to get help
- Offering to call 988 together
- Letting them know it's okay to ask for help
Where can you get help?
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988
- Crisis Text Line: text "HOME" to 741741
School contact: School Psychologist Liz Bryun, 209-586-3508
