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5 Ways to Protect Yourself From Pandemic PTSD Experts offer steps to prevent lingering psychological effects from the past year by Meryl Davids Landau, AARP, May 27, 2021 | Comments: Getty Images Not seeing family or friends. Losing your job or watching it transform beyond recognition. Getting a life-threatening disease or fearing you will. Having someone you know pass away. Psychiatrists consider any of these events which were especially common during the pandemic to be potentially traumatic. For some, such high levels of prolonged stress may leave deep and lasting psychological scars, with the most extreme of these effects being post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. ....