Updated Apr 12, 2021, 12:06 am IST
Unending COVID stories have replaced anxiety with dread and complete avoidance of the outside world. Experts say there’s a way out of this
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You badly want to visit a mall or a multiplex, socialise with a bunch of friends or go back to your work station and be in the company of your colleagues. And yet, there is that dread of contracting the virus, making you wonder how you’d re-enter public life. If the scenario compels you to simply ‘avoid’ the outsides, you’re not alone.
Lockdown, COVID fatigue from either contracting the disease of from listening to the innumerable stories of death and suffering from the virus, etc. have all taken a toll on all of us in some way or the other. For many, the dread has overtaken stress and anxiety to the point of no return.