Racing thoughts, struggling to sit still,

queasy stomach, a sense of dread.

These are some of the sensations that typically accompany anxiety.

And they are feelings that Nathan Rado is all too familiar with.

Anxiety, I think, is best described as living in a constant year.

At least that's what it's been in my experience.

It just feels like there's no rest from being afraid.

Rado is 36 years old, but he says that his anxiety stems from his childhood growing up in an abuse of household.

At the time, I didn't register it as an abuse and I didn't register my fears and anxiety.

It was just, I think, a normal mundane sort of existence.

But once I left my home, the word anxiety started.

It began to be something that I would constantly think about.

Rado says that even though he's lived on his own for many years,

the anxiety has lingered.

And once the pandemic started, it became more severe.

During the pandemic, I have never experienced so much death in my life.

You know, and this is, I think, for somebody who was always comfortable with the whole idea of death itself.

But during the pandemic, I think.

I think it's, I don't even know how to describe it.

Rado is not the only one.

The pandemic threw a lot of people's lives into a tailspin.

Psychologist Boome olatune G studies anxiety at Vanderbilt University.

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