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Responding to the 2020 Election: Stress Management

This guide is aimed at helping instructors and staff navigate the emotions students may be feeling pre and post election.Students can use this guide too!

Stress Management

Stress can often be a part of our daily lives, and election time is no exception. Use these resources to learn how to help manage your stress, regardless of its cause. Be kind to yourself! Remember, you are not alone.

Articles and Webpages

How to Mindfully Manage Election Stress
Learn some great stress management techniques to get you through November and beyond!
How to Cope with Election Stress
From Psychology Today, a guide on how to make a plan for getting through the election and post election with minimal stress.
Anxious about the election? Political Scientits explain why
Where election anxiety comes from and how to deal with it.
Coping with Stress
From the CDC, a guide about coping with stress, particularly focused around the pandemic.
Stress Management
Stress management resources from the American Psychological Association.