Psychologist Sonali Gupta’s new book provides a useful lens to look at a world full of ‘corona anxiety’ If you run a Google search for “coronavirus anxiety", the search engine gives you 548 million results in less than a second.
It’s true that covid-19 has thrown our lives off kilter and invaded our minds with “anticipatory grief"—a term for mourning a future loss—but anxiety is a universal and omnipresent fact of life.
Over 10 million Indians, reportedly, suffer from it as a clinical condition, and everyone else experiences it in differing degrees each day. “Anxiety is an invisible emotion that people carry around with them," says Sonali Gupta, Mumbai-based clinical psychologist and author of the new book Anxiety: Overcome It And Live