As people continue to get sick over COVID-19, some are noticing intense frustration.
Today reported that Gail Saltz, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, said you are not alone if you think the coronavirus pandemic is making people a little meaner. But Saltz doesn't think people are getting meaner.
"When you give people high anxiety or even when you give them a lot of sadness and loss, irritability is often a symptom," Saltz said.
Jeremy Tyler, a director at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said when he thinks of somebody being mean, he shared that the person has the intent to do something to hurt somebody.
"Your intention is to make that person feel bad," Tyler said. "So I don't know that (the pandemic) is making people mean per se, but I think it's absolutely pushing our limit."
Tyler said another way to tell that people are not getting meaner is seeing that most people are lashing out but suddenly feel bad about their actions.
On top of the confusion and stress, the pandemic is causing others to be stuck at home with the same people, doing the same thing every day.
Experts say the stress is causing people's emotions to change. Americans throughout the county are worrying that they or someone they know will get sick. People are also nervous about losing their job and wondering how long life will be like this.
People are feeling under attack, and it makes it very easy to snap at a family member or friend.
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