Dealing With Stress During a Pandemic
How people can ease some of that anxiety and gain a better sense of being in control during a public health crisis.
Public health crises can create mass panic and fear, which have a tendency to gain a momentum of their own. People fear for the health and lives of loved ones and their own, they grapple with the uncertainty of what’s next and the sudden disruption of life as they knew it. External pressures like threatened job security add to this syndrome. Suddenly, nothing seems to be in our control.