Election-related stress and anxiety affects the majority of Americans.

Election-related stress and anxiety affects the majority of Americans. Here's how to handle election anxiety.

WAXHAW, N.C. — Pro-Trump signs outnumber the ones for Harris outside of the Wesley Chapel volunteer fire department, an early voting site in Union County, North Carolina.

The lopsided ratio is the same across the county, a mostly rural community south of Charlotte, near the South Carolina border.

It’s also a sign of the darker side of election season: fear and anxiety, at least for liberals in this historically conservative area.

“A lot of people don’t want to put out anything supporting Harris, because they’re afraid of retribution,” said Lisa, a Union County resident who was campaigning for Democratic candidates this week. Even though she was wearing a T-shirt with a comma and the syllable “la,” referring to the correct pronunciation of the first name of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, she declined to give her last name because she said she was afraid of being targeted.

“My neighbor put up a couple signs” for the Harris-Walz ticket, Lisa said. “The next morning, they were crushed, crumpled up.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/election-stress-anxiety-sleep-tips-rcna177665

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