Worriers Might Be Handling the Pandemic Better

Plus, how to make your worries actually productive

Allison Hirschlag
Elemental
Published in
5 min readNov 24, 2020

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Worrying has become a routine part of many people’s lives these days. And while stress and anxiety are often categorized as irrational or unnecessary, it’s easy to understand why worry, in the scary universe of now, is ubiquitous.

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Allison Hirschlag
Elemental

Writer of varying attitudes. Words at WaPo, Scientific American, Cosmo, Audubon, Weather, McSweeneys, Weekly Humorist and elsewhere. Likes laughing. And cheese.