Actor Andrew Garfield has provided his best emotional health advice in a recent charity video amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The star of “The Social Network” shot the handmade public service announcement (PSA) for the special #WeThriveInside initiative of the Child Mind Institute, which seeks to support children during the pandemic.
“I’m alone in my apartment, which is interesting, so I’m finding reaching out to friends and family and people that I love and that love me, and that will let me hold space for me to be emotional or honest about how I’m feeling, that feels really important,” he says in the video posted on YouTube on Friday, May 8, 2020.
Andrew also admits that he has come to realize that life is “very, very strange,” in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which is also helping to relax his mind.
“(I) accept there’s going to be some wobbles, there’s going to be some anxiety and there’s going to be some fear,” he says.
A week to the day, Andrew’s latest PSA arrives after his former girlfriend Emma Stone, who is a board member at the Child Mind Institute, posted her own advice on the company’s YouTube channel to deal with the COVID-19 lockout.
She said in her own video for the campaign, “I’ve found meditation is very helpful for my anxiety disorder, so just sitting (for) 10, 20 minutes a day and repeating a mantra is really good for me, but you can just count your breaths,” “Another thing I’ve been doing is dancing all around my house, blasting music and just getting it out. Any exercise at all really seems to help me, but dance is my very favourite. I just get very silly and very loose and that seems to work for me.”
The #WeThriveInside initiative for the Child Mind Institute, a non-profit for families and adolescents dealing with mental disorder, has also led to a series of other actors, such as Emma’s friends Octavia Spencer and Jonah Hill.