The Pandemic as a Balm for Anxiety?

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

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…