{"id":147740,"date":"2021-09-05T18:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/147740"},"modified":"2021-09-05T18:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:53:31","slug":"covid-19-managing-anxiety-and-stress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/147740","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Managing Anxiety and Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"Everyone reacts differently to stressful situations\nlike the COVID-19 pandemic. This can be a time of strong emotions in both\nadults and children. You may feel anxious, anger, sadness, or overwhelmed. Find ways to reduce your stress to help yourself\nand the people you care about. Learn the common signs of stress, such as\nchanges in sleep or eating patterns, difficulty concentrating, worsening or chronic health\nproblems, and increased use of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. Take breaks from news stories, including social\nmedia. Take care of your body. Take deep breaths, stretch, or meditate.<br><br>Try to eat healthy, well-balanced meals, exercise\nregularly, get plenty of sleep, and avoid alcohol and drugs. Make time to unwind. Try to do activities you enjoy. Connect with others by phone, text, or email. Share your concerns and feelings with people\nyou trust. If you or someone you know have pre-existing\nmental health conditions, continue with your treatment and be aware of new or worsening\nsymptoms. Contact a health care provider with any concerns\nor if stress gets in the way of daily activities for several days in a row. If you or someone you care about are feeling\noverwhelmed with emotions like sadness, depression or anxiety, get support by calling 1-800-985-5990\nOR text TalkWithUs, to 66746.<br><br>Learn more at cdc.gov\/covid19\nand coronavirus.gov. Let&#039;s take care of ourselves, our family,\nand our community..","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone reacts differently to stressful situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. This can be a time of strong emotions in both adults and children. You may feel anxious, anger, sadness, or overwhelmed. Find ways to reduce your stress to help yourself and the people you care about. Learn the common signs of stress, such as changes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/147740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19: Managing Anxiety and Stress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":147742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,781,4771,7,409],"tags":[1119,38279,42277,42366,416,35059,43463],"class_list":["post-147740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-causes-and-prevention","category-crime-justice","category-disasters-accidents","category-getting-help","category-health","tag-cdc","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-government","tag-public-health","tag-ready"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/147740_maxresdefault.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}