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That COVID-19 Feeling? It’s Called ‘Anticipatory Grief' [Fatherly.com]

 

It’s a time of great dread. Americans are hunkered down in their homes, growing increasingly bored, restless, and uncertain about the future while we seek distraction in Joe Exotic and attempting homemade sourdough cultures. COVID-19, caused by a virus with unprecedented deadliness and voracious contagion, has brought the world to a standstill. As we struggle to process the pandemic’s rising death toll and reel from its economic impact, we can’t move or gather together freely. Normalcy’s gone. Coronavirus anxiety is everywhere. The future is uncertain, but the outlook is bad. And all of us are grieving.

“We’re in this kind of emergency state and everybody’s destabilized,” says clinical psychologist Regina Koepp of the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences and the Atlanta VA Healthcare System. “It’s really scary, and we’re experiencing loss because we’ve lost our sense of security. And that makes it really tricky. The other thing that makes COVID-19 really tricky is that the destination isn’t clear.” 

To continue reading this article by Adam Bulger, go to: https://www.fatherly.com/healt...-anticipatory-grief/

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