The past two years of pandemic life have felt like a ping-pong match of anxiety.
Here, learn three tips to manage COVID variant anxiety.
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Our anxiety serves to alert us to possible a danger or threat.
This fight-or-flight response is in line with uncertainty being a particularly hard reality for humans to tolerate.
3 ways to manage COVID variant anxiety, according to mental-health experts
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clinical psychologist, life fulfillment expert, and author ofDate Smart,Joy From Fear, andAging Joyfully
Carla Marie Manly, PhD
From there, introspection is the name of the game.
Check back in with yourself to see how youre doing afterpracticing breathwork.
It becomes a stressor in and of itself, says Dr. Too much social media hijacks dopamine in our brain, which impairs our ability to be able to relax.
Dr. Manly says removing the component of visual stimulation can lead your brain to be less affected.
Isolation also has a long-term effect on people.
Relaxation and fun are diametrically opposed to anxiety, says Dr. Brenner.
You cant be having fun and be anxious at the same time.
Do what makes you laugh.
Be around people that make you laugh.
clinical psychologist, life fulfillment expert, and author ofDate Smart,Joy From Fear, andAging Joyfully
Watch things that make you laugh.
Do some silly dancing.
[Inject] some levity [to] all the seriousness.
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