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Summary.
How are you feeling today? If you woke up with a pit in your stomach, feeling anxious and uncertain about the future, you’re in good company. Beyond the pandemic, systemic racism, economic crises and other global challenges, the long, polarizing U.S. election is finally coming to an end. No matter what outcome you may hope for, it’s normal to feel stressed and even catastrophize about what will happen next — that’s what uncertainty does to us. That’s what elections, really, of any kind do. And one of this scale has the power to trigger us in very extreme ways.