As life begins to return to normal, psychologists say expect anxiety

As life begins to return to normal, psychologists say expect anxiety

Uncertainty … drives up our anxiety, especially since most people have already spent the past year feeling anxious, says psychologist Dana Garfin, [assistant adjunct professor of nursing], of the University of California, Irvine. “The pandemic really shattered people’s assumptions of their safety, their security, what their lives were going to be like.”