This is On Point. I'm Megyn Chakrabardi.

A recent poll from the American Psychological Association found that close to 75% of U.S. adults are stressed out by the election.

And that includes a whole bunch of on-point listeners.

Indeed, I am experiencing election-related stress.

The presidential race is too close.

I'm worried about violence afterward, and I feel our very democracy is at stake.

I started to realize, oh my God, this is stress again. This is, and it's terrible. I don't like it.

And I'm overcome with panic attacks,

waking up several times in the night.

This election is not only causing me a lot of stress,

but my 20-year marriage may not survive it.

I'm trying to remind myself that I must maintain hope

because the alternative is not helpful,

but I am definitely tending more toward pessimism every day.

The thing that's stressing me out the most

is the fact that everybody else seems to think it's going to be over on November 5th.

And I don't.

If Kamala wins, it's going to be a nightmare because they're going to refuse to accept the election.

And I don't know how it will turn out this time.

And if Trump wins, it'll be another nightmare just a different way.

And that anxiety is not going unnoticed by mental health professionals.

Professionals like Joan Pavlinski in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

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