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Rai King on COVID-19 and the Anxiety It Produces for Moms: “Moms Are Suffering. And We Are Going to Great Lengths to Keep a Hold of Our Sanity”

Branden Janese
Mar 24, 2020
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Last week as households everywhere began settling into the reality of what their new normal would look like, I started noticing a trend of moms in my feed expressing concern for their mental health. I saw statements like “I feel like I’m on the verge of a nervous breakdown” and “I think I just had a panic attack about 30 minutes ago.”

While there are act…

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