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Weâre living in a time when every little cough, sniffle, olfactory or circulatory problem can elicit a knee-jerk bout of worry: Is this the beginning of COVID-19? For some people, however, itâs more than a fleeting concern: Experts say and research shows that the pandemic has triggered a surge in health anxiety. In fact, health anxiety related to the coronavirus has been given its own name: coronaphobia.
âPeople are very concerned and anxious about getting COVID,â says Lynn Bufka, a senior director at the American Psychological Association and a practising licensed clinical psychologist in Maryland, US. âWe should all have some kind of heightened vigilance about protecting ourselves, but for some people, [the anxiety] is out of proportion to the actual risk and generally disrupts life.â
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