(Andrea Bellemare/ CBC News) — It can be hard to feel like you have control right now amid rising Omicron cases and difficulties in accessing COVID-19 tests and third doses of the vaccine in many parts of Canada.
The variant is extremely transmissible, and is coming at a time when most of us would prefer to be planning holiday gatherings. Instead we’re cancelling those plans, and scrambling to find ways to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe.
“People are anxious, a little bit more fearful, and they’re having trouble being motivated and staying motivated,” psychiatrist Dr. Jackie Kinley told The Dose host Dr. Brian Goldman. Kinley is an associate professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University and the founder of the Atlantic Institute for Resilience. (…)