'Preemptive anguish has an upside:' Here's how to cope with election anxiety
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It will likely be a few days before we know the results of the presidential election. In the meantime, “freaking out about the election” discourse has reached a fever pitch. It can feel like there is so much at stake, so much uncertainty, and so little we can control on election day. In fact, anxiety may be a bipartisan issue this election. The American Psychological Association reported that 8 in 10 Republicans and Democrats say that politics are some of their biggest stressors. So how can we learn to sit with the unknown? Howard Lavine has been looking into that. He’s a professor of political science and psychology at the University of Minnesota and he chatted with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about election stress and how to combat it.
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