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May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, there is a crisis of anxiety and burnout, with reports of depression and anxiety rising over 10 percent since last year.
Health experts say it’s all adding up to the rise of “collective stress.”
“Collective stress is when the weight of the world becomes personal, even if it’s not happening directly to us, our nervous system is still responding to it. Our brains, they don’t understand that it’s my stress, or if it’s the world’s stress. It just registers threat,” said licensed therapist Cherlette McCullough.
McCullough says that everything going on in the world is directly and indirectly impacting our mental health.
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