Chronic stress in the pandemic: Why we feel this way and how to cope with it

Flip-flopping restrictions. New sub-variants. Never-ending uncertainty. These are the parameters that have defined our lives for two years. It’s normal to feel stressed out and unsafe nowadays, yet it does not feel like our bodies have acclimated to this "new normal." Shouldn’t humans be experts at existing in long-term, stressful situations at this point? As it turns out, we never have been.

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