How can you help yourself when even getting out of bed seems overwhelming? The lockdown and COVID brought our lives to a standstill and for many of us who are immunoncompromised, or living with elderly folk, life is still not back to 'normal'.

How can you stop yourself before you go into that deep, dark place that's become a lot more familiar? There are small steps we can take to make our lives just a tad simpler.

The video was originally published on the mental health blog called The Mental is Political, which looks at the intersection of mental health, social justice and advocacy.