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Sense of Normalcy Can Bounce Back Quickly, Even During Continued Stress
Journal of Applied Psychology, reveal that psychological recovery can take place even while a person is still in the throes of a stressful experience. That’s significant as previous research has suggested that recovery processes start only after stressors abate and can take months or even years to unfold.For example, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the new pressures of work-from-home and home-schooling, millions of people were able to carry on with the demands of the moment.“Our psychological immune system is so effective that even though we have an ongoing, persisting stressor, we start to fix ourselves almost immediately,” says management professor Trevor Foulk at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.