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Collected Item: “Online Courses to Help with Anxiety Amidst the Pandemic”

Give your story a title.

Online Courses to Help with Anxiety Amidst the Pandemic

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

It is an online course,called “Yikes! Coping with the Uncertainty of Anxiety” during the pandemic. I took a screenshot of their Instagram post about it.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.


During the pandemic, I was an intern at a nonprofit, LEAD Inc., where we created online courses and webinars that give people tips and tricks to dealing with anxiety, working from home, and things to do during the pandemic. I think this item amplifies the voices of a marginalized group, people who struggle with anxiety already, and who struggled even more during the pandemic. It is also a great example of a small non-profit who took an advantage of the pandemic, and worked to try to help people during an unprecedented time. A lot of items I found were just things people did during the pandemic to pass the time, but at LEAD, we actually put together an online course to inform and help people who struggle with the anxiety of uncertainty, and we give lots of information and tips in the course.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#AnxietyInPandemic, #DealingWithAnxiety, #AnxietyOfUncertainty, #OnlineCourse

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://leadslearninglab.teachable.com/p/yikes/?product_id=1755757&coupon_code=MAR20&preview=logged_out

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

LEAD inc.

Give this story a date.

2020-03-19
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