After a long, embattled, and stressful campaign cycle, Election Day is about to finally arrive—but not without spreading waves of anxiety, including a sense of being “nauseously optimistic,” a state of being that’s been getting lots of play in the media and on TikTok in this final stretch of the race.
“It’s very overwhelming,” says psychologist Thea Gallagher, a clinical associate professor at NYU Langone Health and cohost of the Mind in View podcast. “We are all getting completely inundated. I’m getting multiple texts a day about the campaign. It’s really hard to block it out and stay focused.”
