Chronic stress may increase your risk of other mental health concerns, such as depression and anxiety. If these strategies aren’t giving you tools to cope, try seeking help from a professional.

These activities have the added benefit of keeping me off social media or the news, which tends to add to my stress level. Another way I cope with uncertainty is to revisit familiar favorites.

A study of 3084 participants evaluated whether two types of belief in the paranormal might be associated with different levels of perceived stress.