Last week, amid the news that LizTruss had resigned as prime minister after just 45 days in office, we asked you how you were feeling about the state of the country right now. And you didn’t hold back.
uncertainty in the form of changing political leadership, but also economic uncertainty, underlined with public messaging that it will not be getting better any time soon.”
According to Dr Bajaj, identifying what triggers your irritability, and then taking steps to control it, can be helpful in developing healthier coping mechanisms. For example, if the news amps up your frustration, limiting when you can watch it to once a day can help calm things down.“Overcoming the stress response of exhaustion is about giving yourself smaller steps to manage and bringing your thoughts back into dealing only with the here and now,” says Cobban.
As Cobban suggests, extended periods of uncertainty can lead to increased levels of generalised anxiety.