Coronavirus Mental Health & Medical Resources

• Check on others and maintain social connections by calling or video chatting with friends or family and offering to help others where you can.
• Move your body daily by exploring online workout options that bring you joy and looking into the services available through UREC.
• Practice gratitude by writing down or making a mental note of a few things or people you are appreciative of each day.
• Share your feelings with a trusted family member, friend, professor, provider or mental health clinician.
• Practice mindfulness and deep breathing exercises to draw your attention to your body and the present, which often allows us to reset. See below for articles on mindfulness.

Student Support Center: https://www.seattleu.edu/get-answers/

CAPS: https://www.seattleu.edu/caps/resources/

Wellness & Health Center: https://www.seattleu.edu/wellness/

UREC: https://www.seattleu.edu/recreation/

Getting started with mindfulness: https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/

Mindful self-compassion: https://www.mindful.org/the-transformative-effects-of-mindful-self-compassion/

What Therapists Tell Patients with Anxiety about COVID-19: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/therapists-advice-patients-coronavirus-anxiety_l_5e6fb44ac5b6125e095b4134/amp?fbclid=IwAR0YPpjbJZ4oyMKzvjfHCezIjP-ic5jqfanNc7Pq-c0nEcCvO7XyPcv-ZE8

Care Tool: https://www.virusanxiety.com/

How to help others with anxiety: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/2020/03/how-to-help-someone-with-anxiety-or-depression-during-covid-19/

CDC's advice on coping: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html

Symptoms

• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fever or chills
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body aches
• Headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea or vomiting
• Diarrhea

This list is not all possible symptoms. For ongoing updated list to to CDC Symptoms of Coronavirus

How do I treat COVID-19?

• Per CDC guidance, "Treatments used for COVID-19 should be prescribed by your healthcare provider. People have been seriously harmed and even died after taking products not approved for COVID-19, even products approved or prescribed for other uses."
• Potential treatments
• Manage your symptoms. For recommendations please see Home Care for Cold, Flu, & COVID

Look for *emergency warning signs* for COVID-19. If someone is showing any of these signs, seek emergency medical care immediately

• Trouble breathing
• Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• New confusion
• Inability to wake or stay awake
• Bluish lips or face

*This list is not all possible symptoms. Please call your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.

Call 911 or call ahead to your local emergency facility: Notify the operator that you are seeking care for someone who has or may have COVID-19.

What should I do if....?

For Seattle University community health recommendations if you have symptoms, test positive, been in contact with someone with COVID-19, etc.

Seattle - King County Public Health Coronavirus Disease 2019

Washington State Department of Health 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

• What to do if you were potentially exposed to someone with confirmed COVID-19
• What to do if you have confirmed or suspected coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Coronavirus (COVID-19)