As High Stakes Presidential Election Looms, Anxiety Spikes

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Is the presidential election keeping you up at night? Straining your relationships? Maybe even giving you panic attacks? You’re not alone. An American Psychological Association survey found that nearly 70% of adults in the U.S. are finding the election a significant source of stress. That’s a dramatic jump since 2016, and it’s worse for Democrats than Republicans. What are you doing to calm your nerves? And what will you do if the election doesn’t go your way? We’ll get tips on how to manage these times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.8	Coming up on forum, is the presidential election keeping you up at night, straining your relationships, maybe giving you panic attacks?
0:57.7	You're not alone.
0:58.8	An American Psychological Association survey found that nearly 70% of U.S. adults are finding
1:04.6	the election a significant source of stress.
1:07.3	And while it cuts across parties, Democrats are apparently more anxious than Republicans.
1:12.4	What are you doing to calm your nerves? Managing election-related stress, that's next on Forum,
1:17.8	after this news. This is Forum.
1:38.3	As we enter the final weekend before what's been called the most consequential presidential election in modern times,
1:45.7	we thought we'd check in on how you're doing. Surveys are finding high levels of election-related
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