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EPISODE · Mar 1, 2021 · 20 MIN

Feeling pandemic fatigue? Here's what's happening in our brains and how to fight it

from This Matters · host Toronto Star

If you're feeling tired and rundown: you're not alone. There's a name for what you're feeling — pandemic fatigue — a biological response to your brain processing the "fight or flight" instinct over and over again, with no definitive timeline on when the pandemic will end. Steve Joordens, psychology professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, talks to "This Matters" host Adrian Cheung about the fatigue we're all facing, what "staring at the bear" does to your brain and strategies on how to re-fill your mental 'tank' through the pandemic.

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