If you’ve browsed social media at all in the past few months, you’ve almost certainly seen several people joking and posting memes about how 2020 has been the worst year. While the jokes make people laugh, they also speak to something many people are experiencing this year: chronic stress at emergency levels.
As a country, we’re dealing with several major crises at once, including COVID-19, the economic collapse, and civil unrest. But it’s not just the sheer number of issues we’re dealing with that has us all stressed out; it’s also the length of time and the lack of end in sight.