Life can be filled with many stressors. However, the numerous effects of a quarantine (loneliness, health, grief, finances, family pressures, employment, worry, anger, and boredom) can severely tax one’s mental reserves and physiology.
Prolonged stress and feeling out of control can cause a host of reactions—some positive and some negative. You are probably already familiar with your own tendency to manage stress in less than positive ways (overeating, eating junk foods, excessive drinking, smoking, watching endless tv, not working out or moving, sleeping too much and/or not enough, watching endless news updates and feeding oneself with more negativity than positivity, cutting off from loved ones and/or becoming overly demanding, having
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