RUOK? Tamworth True asks the question despite lockdown distance

Jody Ekert, founder of Tamworth True, has one answer.

The COVID-19 support group is conducting conversation prompters to get people talking about their experience of the second RUOK? Day stuck at home.

The first prompter - what are you looking forward to? - gives the flavour of the concept. The daily questions explore life in lockdown, giving people an opportunity to ask for help.

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It's particularly important for RUOK? Day, she said.

"It is very worrying on one of the days that we are focusing on everyone's mental health that people are physically quite distanced from each other," she said.

"You don't have a lot of those small moments of the day to be able to ask that question to people that you would normally see.

"We thought at Tamworth True that we would do a week of prompts, not just mental health, but just discussion prompts in general, that might allow people to open up in a different way."

Tamworth True was founded in early 2020 as a "caremongering" movement to keep people ticking during the first, national, coronavirus lockdown.

Ms Ekert said lockdown number two has been just as hard, or harder than the first time around.

She said RUOK? Day was an important outlet for many people.

"I think RUOK? Day is a fantastic entry point for a lot of people who might not consider that question all the time," she said.

"It's a great launch pad for bigger, more in depth questions. One day can't be the solution for everything."

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