Coronavirus anxiety: How to cope with life after lockdown
Akanksha Bhatia says people with anxiety are already prone to"overthink" stepping out of the house
"It's not been that easy," she says. A month into lockdown, she had a particularly bad day and cried a lot.Like many people, Akanksha has had some struggles during lockdown. But there has also been respite from some of the things that triggered her anxiety in her life pre-coronavirus, because she's able to be at home with her parents, who help her to feel safe.
"After you've been inside for a long time, it can feel very strange to go outside," says Nicky Lidbetter, CEO of"You perhaps lose your confidence to do things you haven't had to in a while." But one common factor we all share is the amount of change we have all gone through, in a very short space of time.
Dr Taylor is the author of The Psychology of Pandemic, a book published just a few weeks before coronavirus emerged in China in late 2019.
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