Brian Lair on WNYC.

Now we'll take some time to maybe unwind a little bit, if that's even the right word,

and let go some of the pent-up stress we've accumulated during this election season and be ready

for the stress possibly to come in the coming days and maybe weeks and maybe four years.

Tomorrow is, of course, the big day.

Everybody's anxiously waiting to see what direction our country will go as a result of the

decisions being made at the

ballot box. But maybe some of you are experiencing more anxiety due to the election process than in

previous years. The cycle has been particularly intense. I don't have to tell you. Democrats are

continually pushing the message that democracy is on the line, and based on Donald Trump's previous

actions and rhetoric, that message is more salient and more anxiety-producing to a lot of

Democrats this time around. Republicans have their own different anxieties, but already we're

seeing so many things, you know, from a democratic perspective,

from a gendered perspective, from a racial and immigration status perspective,

the racism, the promises of mass deportation, women actually dying from pregnancies,

even that they wanted, attack ad centered on the premise that trans people shouldn't be

visible in public. I could go on and on. All the while, Americans are concerned

even about their own safety with respect to even saying

who they're for. We heard that from the one caller in the Bronx in the last segment. And so we get

to the psychological impact of all this. According to the American Psychological Association,

more than seven and ten adults reported the future of our nation as a significant source of stress in their lives, making it the

most common source of significant stress in this year's survey. I'm quoting from the American

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