Thread by @JonHutson

🧵#SudanStressTips: Reducing the chronic stress of daily life as much as possible is important for overall health.
1. Make time for movement.🏃🏾 Wait for the crossfire to end & avoid checkpoints and roaming militias. Better yet, don't move; meditate while sheltering in place.🧘🏾

2. Set boundaries between your work & your personal life.🧱 Reinforce them with sand bags. Consider getting a guard dog.🐕‍🦺
3. Connect with people you care about. These may be people who own a generator or people with fuel to run a generator. Barter with food.🍞
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4. Speak with a therapist.👩🏽‍⚕️ Ask them where you can find bread🍞 to barter for fuel⛽ to run your neighbor's generator to recharge your phone📶 to connect with your loved ones💙🇸🇩 to make a plan to make time for movement when the roads become safe. #SudanStressTips

5. Spend time in nature.🌄 There may be wild animals there. Maybe you could kill & eat them.
6. 😅Laugh every day at sternly worded letters of concern from the international community without any food or medicine. 🤭 Laugh at their announcements of ceasefires.
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🤣 Laugh at the colonialism of Western powers who talk about respect for human rights & the dignity of all people & then evacuate their mostly White diplomats in the night while leaving Sudanese national staff behind without food or medicine or Internet or power. #SudanStressTips

7. #SudanStressTips: Remember that the traffic jams caused by six million people fleeing Khartoum in all directions all at once are only temporary.🛻🚚🚗 They will end when the fuel runs out.⛽ Then you can return to Step 1 & make time for movement.🏃🏾#Namaste #KeepEyesOnSudan