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Coping with Holiday Blues During COVID-19

Coping with Holiday Blues During COVID-19

In a Psychology Today article, “Coping With Holiday Blues During COVID-19,” Dr. Anton C. Bizzell focuses on how to cope with holiday blues during COVID-19, including tips for recognizing and managing your stressors.
The holiday season is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with family and friends, catch up, participate in family and religious traditions, and enjoy the company of loved ones. For some, the holidays are associated with triggers, stressors, and emotional landmines. For many of us, it is both. And all of us will have to alter our holiday routines due to the virus. However, we can navigate the holiday season by using simple but powerful tools. Doing so allows us to enjoy the benefits that the holiday season can bring and take steps to prevent or manage stress. We can create a new holiday normal, Dr. Bizzell concludes.

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Categories BHARC, Insights Tags Behavioral Health, CEO Insights, COVID-19, Health, Mental Health

Preserving the Mental Wellness of Our Healthcare Heroes

Preserving the Mental Wellness of Our Healthcare Heroes

Dr. Anton C. Bizzell underscores in Psychology Today how The Bizzell Group (Bizzell) helps preserve the mental wellness of our healthcare heroes. People often choose a career in medicine because they desire to help, heal, and make a difference. They have the drive to fulfill these responsibilities, and their accomplishments are often groundbreaking.
“We can never forget that these healthcare workers are human beings, not robots,” Dr. Bizzell writes. “As this pandemic stretches toward a second year, we cannot expect them to continue to do their jobs well without better support for their mental well-being.”
Organizations—including Bizzell—are beginning to step up at the national, state, and local levels to help these everyday heroes.

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Categories BHARC, Insights Tags Behavioral Health, CEO Insights, COVID-19, Ebola, Global, Health, Mental Health

Lessons for COVID-19 Recovery From the Ebola Epidemic

Lessons for COVID-19 Recovery From the Ebola Epidemic

In a recent Psychology Today article, Dr. Anton C. Bizzell highlights some of the lessons The Bizzell Group (Bizzell) learned during the most recent Ebola virus epidemic. Bizzell partnered with local, national, and international groups to improve health outcomes and mental health consequences in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These lessons can help address the global mental health crisis already emerging due to COVID-19.
“We cannot focus solely on the transmission of COVID-19,” Dr. Bizzell writes. “We must formulate an innovative and sustainable response that addresses the global mental health crisis already emerging.”

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Dr. Bizzell Featured in Mind Your Health for the Psychology Today Publication

Dr. Bizzell Featured in Mind Your Health for the Psychology Today Publication

Dr. Bizzell highlights in Psychology Today how to manage well-being in high-stress environments and how businesses can combat the opioid epidemic. A Midwest Economic Policy Institute study shows that the injury rate for construction workers is 77 percent higher than the national average for other occupations. Because of that high injury rate — and subsequent use of prescribed opioids to control pain — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says workers in the construction industry are among the groups with the highest rates of opioid abuse and opioid overdose deaths.

With Americans spending most of their time in the workplace, construction is not the only high-stress environment where opioids are abused. In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC points to miners, oil and gas extraction workers, and health care practitioners as other occupation groups with the highest proportional mortality rates due to methadone, natural and semisynthetic opioids, and synthetic opioids other than methadone.

American businesses are beginning to be creative about managing this crisis. An Indiana company had several job vacancies because it could not find any prospects who were able to pass a drug test. As a result, the company president decided to partner with a local treatment facility and hire former opioid abusers who had difficulty getting jobs after completing treatment. Another CEO pledged to take the stigma out of addiction by telling his workers to come to him directly for help because they should never have to suffer alone. These are just two of thousands of corporations figuring out the role they can play in fighting the opioid epidemic…one person at a time.

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