But the feeling that something has shifted since the pandemic is prevalent ― and therapists say there’s a psychological explanation for that. Advertisement“I think... life feels worse because people are still recovering from the collective grief,” said Paule-Veronique Gnapi, a clinical mental health therapist at Jetter and Associates Counseling in Pennsylvania. People, to some extent, have just remained more isolated now than they were prior to COVID,” Ellingsen said. Life felt simpler before the pandemic, even though all of the hard parts of life (death, layoffs, sickness) existed in the “before times,” too. We can’t go back to pre-pandemic days, but there are a few things you can do to make life feel better.

Source: Huffington Post March 11, 2026 15:52 UTC