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Anticipatory anxiety for the hearing impaired

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    Many people are undergoing anxiety or feeling that all is not well, nowadays. This anxiety relates to 3 major areas : 1. Health - either own health, or health of loved ones. 2. Loss - loss of job, loss of freedom to go anywhere at a moment's notice. 3. Daily routines have changed drastically. While all are worried about health, it relates more to worry about isolation.  Images of people dying alone have created a fear psychosis or an anticipatory anxiety.  We all worry about our loved ones having to cope up with isolation. In my case, the anticipatory anxiety relates to my eldest brother [Nagendran] who is hearing impaired.  👂 While he is pretty much independent, and is able to comprehend most things [ a magical ability given by God to the disabled, as they seem to be able to use all their abilities to a heightened level], these days there is an a