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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin.

Time now for another solo episode from the insights that I get. It does seem like you appreciate a short and effective solo episode. So for this one, I've had so many messages

asking me to discuss this and I didn't think it would be such a wanted topic but it does seem

that for a lot of you who did catch COVID,

maybe once or several times, maybe different variants, it did not do your experience of anxiety

any favours.

So I decided I would talk about my experience of having it and how it impacted me from a mental

health side of things before getting it during having it and after having the virus.

To be honest, had I known how ill I would feel with it, I would have probably been far more anxious at the thoughts of catching it,

but I think it had just become so normalized in society and my fear response had just accepted

that I would get it eventually. So the initial worry that I think we probably all had in March 2020 had leveled

off a bit. Even though I hadn't caught the virus, I think when you're exposed to something that's

...