"It's very overwhelming," says psychologist Thea Gallagher, a clinical associate professor at NYU Langone Health and co-host of the Mind in View podcast. "We are all getting completely inundated. I'm getting multiple texts a day about the campaign. It's really hard to block it out and stay focused."
Political anxiety is at a fever-pitch right now, according to a new poll from the American Psychological Association. It finds that 77% of Americans are stressed about the future of the country and 69% are specifically anxious about the election.
At baseline, this is a big election. "People feel very strongly about their beliefs, what they want for this country, and how they want issues to be handled," Gallagher says. "Depending on who wins the election, it seems like issues are going to be handled very differently-that's a lot to process."
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