The same APA poll found that 68 percent of respondents reported worries about health and safety made them somewhat or extremely anxious. Some 67 percent of folks reported finances as their source, followed by politics (56 percent) and interpersonal relationships (48 percent). In their “Stress in America” survey (2017), the APA found that 63 percent of Americans felt that the future of the nation was a large source of stress, and 59 percent checked the box that “the United States is at the lowest point they can remember in history.” Remember, this was back in 2017, three years before COVID-19
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