Everything surrounding COVID-19 can be overwhelming, stressful and raise levels of anxiety. According to psychologist Tom Hollenstein, it’s normal to feel that way. “I think we all have anxiety.

I’m not an anxious person and I’m feeling it. Anxiety is really about feeling uncertain about the future. We just don’t know what’s going on.

The first thing I would say, it’s normal,” says Hollenstein According to KFL&A public health, there are a number of things you can do to tackle the uncertain feeling.

One way is to take a break from the news, social media and electronics. “We’re all in information overload right now and we can’t process so much information quickly and that alone will create anxiety in individuals trying to keep up with this,”

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