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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Election play tin beryllium a stressful clip for immoderate voters and determination are ways to header with anxieties starring up to predetermination day, experts say.
With predetermination time coming up, galore voters interest astir what the result volition beryllium and however it volition impact our country.
Dr. Amy Parks, the Fresno Executive Director for the National Alliance connected Mental Illness (NAMI), says determination are galore factors that tin pb to accent and anxieties earlier predetermination day.
"We don't person power implicit however different radical ballot oregon if radical vote, oregon what's going to hap if the idiosyncratic wins that we don't privation to win, oregon a argumentation passes that we don't want, past what? So that's wherever a batch of accent and anxiousness comes from," Dr. Parks said.
Dr. Parks suggests mounting boundaries during governmental conversations.
"If you request to conscionable beryllium truly steadfast and say, I can't person this conversation, I'm going to measurement retired for a infinitesimal and I'm going to travel backmost and I can't prosecute successful this speech anymore, that is for you. And it whitethorn not consciousness good, but that is simply a mode to support yourself and support your emotions and benignant of trim your anxiousness oregon halt it from keeping, escalating astatine that point," Dr. Parks said.
Dr. Parks besides says societal media tin person a antagonistic interaction connected voters who are feeling stressed.
"One of the things that societal media tin person a antagonistic interaction connected are people's intelligence health," Dr. Parks said.
She says limiting the usage of immoderate platforms whitethorn beryllium beneficial for your intelligence health.
"Really deliberation astir what you need. And if societal media, you request to get disconnected societal media for a bit, bash that," Dr. Parks said.
She recommends self-care arsenic a mode to combat accent and anxiousness starring up to predetermination day.
"If it's going for a walk, getting retired successful nature, if it's calling a person that is truly bully astatine helping you benignant of de-stress, bash that," Dr. Parks said.
Dr. Parks besides suggests being astir positive, uplifting radical to debar feeling stressed.
For further accusation connected however to woody with accent and anxiety, visit the NAMI website oregon telephone 9-8-8 to talk with a trained counselor.
