If you have been hospitalized, ordered to quarantine, or in a motor vehicle accident in which you were injured, please let us know. These situations can bring forth serious hardships to one’s quality of life and Stablemate understands.

When we ask for a medical clearance form from your licensed physician, it is to help you in your time of need. In your recovery period, being alone might be best but when you are ready (and medically cleared) to get back on track, Stablemate is ready for you.

Stablemate advocates for yearly physician exams to ensure you are healthy and ready for the rigors of meetings and interactions. Both physically and mentally, one should be prepared for these experiences and a yearly exam gives both the piece of mind and the go-ahead to take on the world!

Stablemate does not provide Professional Medical Clearance Examinations as a service for sports, jobs, surgeries, or anything else that may require a release clearance form. However, we may have professional physicians in your local community that use our services. You may easily be able to book them or you may find a medical professional suitable for professional examination & procedures through Stablemate.

Having medical clearance is not a requirement for having a Stablemate profile. The reason for this advocacy is to promote health & wellness. We want to let you know that we want to help you keep you safe, healthy, happy & available to interact with others.

Have a question regarding our Health and Wellness Advocacy? Please provide your full name, primary email & questions, after you send your message we will review it promptly & a suitable professional with capacity, not Ai technology or bots, will respond accordingly to resolve in helping one another. To conclude this legal notice we thank you for your time & reviewing our Health and Wellness Advocacy. We wish you all the best, all the time.

Thank you for reviewing this advocacy and welcome to Stablemate. It is the initiative of Steady Flow, LLC., D/B/A Stablemate to provide our community with a safe, smart, social, skills exchange platform for our members. Stablemate promotes measures aimed at reducing and preventing incidents of stress. All members of the Stablemate community shall cooperate to maintain a safe, smart, social service and shall comply with this advocacy. This advocacy is to be routinely updated and published for your review, awareness, and safety as a member of Stablemate. By accepting our Terms of Services and accessing Stablemate in any manner you acknowledge that you accept the practices and are aware of this advocacy outlined and you hereby consent to understand the information described in this advocacy for stress management.

Within any given day everyone experiences stress. At times stress is beneficial for a person, as it can help you focus and complete tasks or goals; however, when a person's stress is frequently overbearing and intense, it can dwell or strain your overall health and wellness. Stress can be counteractive, making it impossible to function and complete tasks or goals. Finding efficient and effective ways to deal with stress is vital to living well and enjoying the quality of life.

Stress impacts and affects your energy, mental health, and physical body. Some common signs include:

• Uncontrollable hardships events (car accident, unwelcoming news/music)
• Uncomfortable working or living conditions
• Headaches/migraines
• Trouble sleeping
• Jaw pain
• Changes in appetite
• Frequent mood swings
• Difficulty concentrating
• Feeling overwhelmed
• Doing too much of a particular activity of any kind, including boredom.
• When someone is experiencing long-term stress, their brain is exposed to increased levels of a hormone identified by medical professionals as cortisol. This exposure weakens your immune system, making it easier for you to get sick. As the saying goes too much or too little of anything is not good for anyone.

Stress can worsen symptoms of your mental illness. For example, someone with schizophrenia may have an increase in hallucinations and delusions, while stress in a person living with bipolar disorder, can trigger episodes of both mania and depression. Knowing your limits, finding your balance, and having a strategy for coping with stress is the first step in coping with stress. Remember we all endure stress, no matter who we are or what we do.

People are most susceptible to stress when they are:

• Not getting enough sleep.
• Not having a network of quality support.
• One continuously and consistently has to deal with overbearing, manipulative, or flakey people who take advantage of one's thoughts, time, money, energy, and more. (This includes an employee, co-worker, lover, friend, family member, or acquaintance)
Experiencing a major life change such as:
• Stage fright
• Moving
• Rejection
• A death of a loved one
• Starting a new job
• Having a child
• Getting married
• Legal issues
• Experiencing poor physical health
• Not exercising
• Not eating well
• Stage fright
• Everyone has their thresholds, Certain things may upset you or you may upset others. might even make you or one of your friend's second question; whatever the case or event may be, people are affected by many forms of stress when they experience environments around them. We are creatures of nature and products of our environment, we all react to situations based on feeling and emotion, some may do well in noisy or fast-paced environments as others prefer silence and free time.

• Developing a personalized approach to reducing your stress can help you manage your mental health conditions and improve your quality of life. Once you've learned what your triggers are and can experiment with coping strategies these fixed pictures of stress in your head become robust interactive wheels in motion and dealing with stress becomes easy as riding a bike or eating ice cream. To help you find a start here are some common practices or activities that may start working with stress. Please remember anyone can participate in stress management, stress comes in many ways, and some activities listed are not for everyone or maybe they are. It’s all up to you and how you can develop a personalized approach.
• A person has to accept their needs. Recognize what your triggers are. What situations make you feel physically and mentally agitated? Once you know this, you can avoid them when it's reasonable too and to cope when you can't.
• Manage your time. Prioritizing your activities can help you use your time well. Making a day-to-day schedule helps ensure you don't feel overwhelmed by everyday tasks and deadlines.
• Practice relaxation in moderation that’s achievable for you. Deep breathing, meditation, and resting to calm yourself. Taking a break to refocus can have benefits beyond the immediate moment.
• Exercise daily or maybe every other day or one day a week. Schedule time to walk outside, go for a run at the high school track, maybe a bike, or join a class. Incorporate or start a new hobby you're interested in, that doesn’t burden your weekly activity. Perhaps you would like to learn or understand: photography, designing/drawing, painting, sculpting, programming, musical instrument, or meeting with new people for a simple conversation about similar skills, interests, hobbies, and attributes. Whatever you do, make sure it's good for you, Daily exercise naturally produces stress-relieving hormones in your body and improves your overall physical health.
• Set aside time for yourself; personal care is prominent for you, you do, need you, after all, Schedule something that makes you feel good. It might be: Reading a book, listening to new music, going to the movies, getting a massage, weekend getaway, or personal vacation even if just for yourself, For example, take your dog for a walk at the beach or drive across the state to visit a park, landmark monument or museum.
• Eat well: eating unprocessed foods, like whole grains, vegetables, and fresh fruit is the foundation for a healthy body and mind. Eating well can also help stabilize your mood.
• Get enough sleep; symptoms of some mental health conditions, like mania in bipolar disorder, can be triggered by getting too little sleep.
• Avoid alcohol and drugs; they don't reduce stress; in fact, they often worsen it, if you're struggling with substance abuse, educate yourself and get help.
• Talk to someone; whether to friends, family, a counselor, or a support group, airing out and talking can help. Therapists are normal people too and have resourceful strategies. These professionals also experience the local community just like anyone else and perhaps may have wonderful ways to improve your connection to the city and state.



Getting Help: ask and you shall receive! If the steps you've taken aren't working, it may be time to share with your mental health professional. They can help you pinpoint specific events that trigger you and help you create an action plan to change them.

Kindly Note: We do understand a lot of these things may not help at this very moment; however, tomorrow is another day. This initiative is here for you to work with. We wrote this to help you find a simple breaking point or inspire you, change the mold, and break the boundary for yourself or others you may know. Right now is a fresh start. This is a starting point. At any time it is up to you. Life is what you make it, find your points, connect the dots, paint the way, build a path, and voila. In your journey to the point, finding yourself, this advocacy is here to help you - seize the day!

Please provide your full name, primary email & questions, after you send your message we will review it promptly & a suitable professional with capacity, not A I technology or bots, will respond accordingly to resolve in helping one another. To conclude this legal notice we thank you for your time & reviewing our Stress Management Advocacy. We wish you all the best, all the time.

Thank you for reviewing this advocacy and welcome to Stablemate. It is the initiative of Steady Flow, LLC., D/B/A Stablemate to provide our community with a safe, smart, social, skills exchange platform for our members. Stablemate promotes measures aimed at reducing and preventing incidents of suicide. All members of the Stablemate community shall cooperate to maintain a safe, smart, social service and shall comply with this advocacy. This advocacy is to be routinely updated and published for your review, awareness, and safety as a member of Stablemate. By accepting our Terms of Services and accessing Stablemate in any manner you acknowledge that you accept the practices and are aware of this advocacy outlined and you hereby consent to understand the information described in this advocacy for suicide prevention. Kindly note: be sure to review the stress management advocacy along with this advocacy for more resourceful information that you may find useful.

We are aware of the suicide epidemic within The United States of America and suicide can happen to or have an effect on anyone. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for young people and one of the leading causes of death overall in Americans. Any local hospitals are staffed with medical providers and professionals who are committed to reducing the stigma of suicide and mental illness and raising awareness about the resources and information available to anyone in need of information or curious to learn. We have this written advocacy to help make an awareness impact regarding the underlying causes of suicide and hope to help enhance prevention and make a difference. If you would like to get involved please engage with members, providers, and professionals within your local community and use the stablemate platform if you must meet with the right people. Help us, help you, help others.

For starters the holiday season can be a difficult and stressful time for many during the fall-winter. It’s not just the holidays it’s any day or any time. Children, adults, elderly, college students, teachers/professors, law enforcement, entertainers, athletes, and any type of professionals within any industry - themselves - all suffer or deal with tension, confusion, stress, depression, and possibly many other professional, personal, and production issues. It is always imperative to stop, listen to your own needs and follow your heart. Here are some self-care ideas aside from the Stablemate website and mobile application for yourself and beyond if you are ever in need of help and need something to do. You can share this link with someone if you think it can help them.

• Take deep breaths
• Take a walk outside or drive around the neighborhood up to the store.
• If driving for a long duration, stop for a couple of minutes in the rest area, exit ramp, or side of the road, put your hazards on, and just breathe. Tell yourself you love yourself and drive on.
• If home, take out the garbage, get the mail even if there is no mail.
• Write a love letter to yourself
• Write about something you are grateful for in your life (it can be a person, place, or thing)
• Draw something and after throwing it out if you must or keep it, you may make yourself laugh or release just the energy you want to get rid of.
• Create a happy playlist and a coping playlist
• Jumping jacks, push-ups, sit-ups, or meditation (even if just sitting still and breathing)
• Treat yourself to a favorite snack (forget the diet plan for today, tomorrow’s another day)
• Watch your favorite movie
• Forgive someone (you may have to say it to yourself 100 times before you say alright definitely forgive)
• Forgive yourself (always, you are not perfect - nobody is.)
• Say thank you to someone who has helped you recently or even hold the door for someone they say thank you, and you say “You are welcome”
• Tell someone or anyone a compliment, pick something they have going on, and say awesome! The truth is it really might just be awesome.
• Create a DIY self-care kit of things that make you feel better
• Brushing your teeth, taking a shower, doing laundry
• Take your medication on time
• Take a new fitness class at the gym (yoga, Zumba, etc.)
• Plan a lunch date with someone you haven’t seen in a while or anyone and bring questions to the table for them and you.
• Pamper yourself with an at-home spa day
• Take a day off from social media and the Internet or a week or longer.
• Reach out to your support system
• Cuddle with your pets or a friend’s pet or visit an animal shelter, vet hospital or maybe volunteer to dog walk.
• Take the time to stop, stand and stretch for 1 minute, 5 minutes, or whatever makes you feel - you.
• Wake up a little earlier and enjoy your morning cup of tea or coffee before the morning rush
• Take a hot shower or bath, again (even though we already previously listed this)
• Take yourself out to dinner you deserve it
• Volunteer (fire, police, shelter, business, auto-body shop, college/school, local business, library, and more)
• Start that one project you’ve been contemplating for a while or look over it even if you don’t want to start that one project. Maybe even help others with their projects and so on.
• Sit with your emotions, and allow yourself to feel and accept them, It’s okay to laugh, cry, and feel whatever you’re feeling with no apologies!
• Cook a favorite meal from scratch, the internet has endless Recipes or maybe keep it simple pasta, spaghetti, or whatever chicken noodle soup!
• Take a 5-minute break in your day
• Compliment someone or yourself
• Give yourself permission to say NO
• Declutter your mind: write down 5 things that are bothering you and then literally throw them away
• Donate 3 pieces of clothing that you no longer wear or even more than just 3.
• Take the time to find 5 beautiful things during your daily routine
• Take a mental health day from school, work, etc.
• Sleep, Take a nap
• Reach out to people

Please be advised that we write this advocacy to help you find the right people and help you grow from point A to point B and become more. For more information about Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Information efforts and statistics, please visit one of the many advocacy programs, hotlines, call centers, groups, and more that are all in the same fight against suicide. All and many can be found within your local community, online, or if an emergency or non-emergency you can always contact 911. Police dispatch can advise you and even redirect you to the right areas within your community.

Please refer to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention website.

Please reach out to National Suicide Prevention

• Call: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
• Text: Text HELLO to 741741

Have a question regarding our Suicide Prevention Advocacy? Please provide your full name, primary email & questions, after you send your message we will review it promptly & a suitable professional with capacity, not Ai technology or bots, will respond accordingly to resolve in helping one another. To conclude this legal notice we thank you for your time & reviewing our Suicide Prevention Advocacy. We wish you all the best, all the time.