COVID and Anxiety

Unit 4 Discussion Abnormal Psychology
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Covid and Anxiety
2020 was the hardest year for most people due to the COVID pandemic. When the disease was said to be a global threat during this year, there were increased cases of anxiety-related disorders and depression, which increased by twenty-five percent (WHO, 2022). The essay will discuss how the pandemic affected the prevalence of anxiety disorders, symptoms that indicated stress and anxiety, and coping mechanisms used to deal with the anxiety.
The prevalence of anxiety disorders increased significantly, largely due to fear and uncertainty. It was like living each day, not knowing whether one would still be alive tomorrow. Additionally, mandatory isolation was a large stressor since people no longer had access to people they could talk to or could not go to leisure parks or entertainment joints (WHO, 2022). Further, most people stopped going to work and had to deal with financial worries and what their tomorrow held for them, having inadequate savings. According to WHO (2022), all these factors increased the prevalence of anxiety disorders to the extent that psychosocial support was...