How to Cope with Election-Anxiety

Dr. Pamela Rutledge
7 min readOct 15, 2020

Continually checking your cellphone, scrolling news stories or experiencing news cycle fatigue? Sadly, it is impossible to distinguish election-anxiety behaviors like those from COVID-anxiety behaviors when it comes to media use. Both types of anxiety have the same damaging stress responses in your body but they can have very different worries and triggers. Triggers are not the cause of anxiety, but they can activate and intensify it. You can learn how to identify triggers and develop coping strategies that will help manage your election anxiety.

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Dr. Pamela Rutledge

Practical tips & insights from a psychologist, researcher, professor & parent to make the best out of our digital world. Also on Substack @drpam