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The Pandemic as a Balm for Anxiety?
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The Pandemic as a Balm for Anxiety?

For most people anxiety worsened... but for a few of us, nameless fears were given a name.

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Ryan McCormick, M.D.
Jun 23, 2022
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In the earliest days of the pandemic, let’s say sometime around March 2020, a new kind of fear emerged. It was a fear of contagion, of an unknown monster with tendrils that could wrap around our hearts and lungs, making it impossible to breathe. There was a fear of our children being orphaned. There was a fear that hugging those we love could unwitti…

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