191 - Friday Mental Health Q&A: Dealing with Election Anxiety, Hard Decisions About Holiday Plans, and COVID Fatigue
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
How can we deal with election stress and uncertainty? How should we think about hard decisions like traveling for the holidays? How can we balance the health and safety risks of visiting with friends and family with concerns about mental health and loneliness if we stay home? What can we do to prepare for an overlap of COVID fatigue and seasonal affective disorder? How do we know if we're just feeling down or if it's something more serious?
Clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Murray returns to the podcast to answer your mental health questions.
KEYWORDS: stress management; child health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.9 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
| 0:32.5 | health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at |
| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast |
| 0:47.8 | episodes. Today, we are answering your mental health questions as Stephanie Desmond talks to |
| 0:53.6 | Hopkins psychologist Laura Murray, |
| 0:55.8 | among the topics, dealing with election anxiety |
| 0:59.0 | and making hard decisions about whether to visit with family |
| 1:02.4 | over the coming holidays as COVID cases continued to rise. |
| 1:07.2 | Let's listen. |
| 1:09.0 | Laura Murray, thanks so much for joining us again. |
| 1:11.3 | Oh, thank you so much for having me, Stephanie, especially on your special birthday. |
| 1:16.7 | So happy birthday. |
| 1:18.1 | Thank you. COVID birthdays are the best. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, I assume you have some big parties or excursions planned. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:32.9 | For next year. year. The COVID birthdays have not been stellar. No, I think, you know, we're finally getting to, you know, my time of the year and boy, |
| 1:38.5 | we hoped it would be gone by now, but obviously that's not where we are. I want to ask you, |
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