Your All-Day, Election-Day Sanity Prescription

Election Day is finally here, and it’s sure to be one of the most anxiety-stoking days of the year. We asked stress expert Jeff Temple, associate professor and psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, to share some activities we should do to make election day as manageable as possible. Some of his advice, and some of ours, below:

8 a.m.: Vote. It’s the biggest thing you can do to relieve Election Day anxiety, because it gives you a sense of agency.