WVXU: COVID and the 'anniversary effect'
UC expert Jennifer Brown speaks to rememberance and stress
In a radio interview with WVXU, UC’s Jennifer Brown, an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry, explains how bodies can react to specific dates that surround a traumatic event such as with the anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
It’s called “The Anniversary Effect”.
“For some, it's sort of a remembrance, and not much more beyond that," Brown said. "For others, it can really be associated with increased emotional distress, or anxiety or depression."
The article tells how the effect can hit people two-fold: the mass events people experience as communities, like when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed; or more personal experiences, like the loss of a loved one or a job and says that COVID-19 can be a double whammy for a lot of people who've experienced trauma on several levels.
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