The pandemic has taught us a lot about technology, the economy, and our global society.
Anxiety Remedies
WHO declaredCOVID a pandemic on March 11.
A national emergency was declared in the United States on March 13.
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Six days later California became the first state to issue a stay-at-home order.
As coronavirus dominated the news, anxiety-related articles increased in popularity.
On March 21, our article aboutwhether Benadryl can help with anxiety peaked.
Traffic has slowly declined since then.
People began wondering how isolation might affect them.
And they started researching whether cabin fever is real.
They also looked for coping skills to deal with the stress and boredom they experienced from staying home.
Coping With Loneliness
Readers were especially interested in learninghow to cope with lonelinessthis year.
Interest in the topic remained high during the summer months as most people continued to limit their face-to-face interactions.
They started looking for creative ways to date during the pandemic.
Social distancing measures posed some interesting hurdles for those looking to make romantic connections, however.
People wanted to know, Can you really date over Zoom?
and they begin looking for answers abouthow to start a new relationship during the pandemic.
Clearly, the pandemic strained relationships from all directions.
So its no surprise we saw an increased interest in relationship contentespecially surroundinglove languages and words of affirmation.
We saw an interest in depression-related content in the early days of the pandemic.
Others were starting their second month of unemployment.
Around that time there was an increased interest in content surrounding motivationespecially lack of motivation.
Our article What to Do When You Have No Motivation peaked at the end of May.
Thats not surprising given the spike in mental health issues around this time.
Guided Meditations
Readers were also looking for healthy coping strategies to deal with their distress this year.
There was a lot of interest in meditation content.
Gender Terminology
Not all of our most-viewed content had to do with the pandemic.
We also saw an increase in interest surroundinggender terminology, such as nonbinary.
This isnt surprising as the nation made a shift in how we view gender this year.
As media stories ofpolice brutalitycirculated,protestsbroke out around the country.
A Word From Verywell
This year was likely the most difficult year of many peoples lives.
We hope 2021 reduces the stress and pressure were all experiencing.
