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‘ARE YOU OK?’ After coping with nearly two years of pandemic as well as social, political, economic and environmental upheaval, we all need a wellness check. GETTY IMAGES
It may be the most important question we can ask each other right now, but it’s also among the hardest Victor D. Infante Worcester Magazine | USA TODAY NETWORK
“Are you OK?” h That’s a loaded little sentence, isn’t it? h “It’s not only scary to answer it,” says Graham Campbell, a retired local psychologist, “it’s scary to ask it. It’s very personal. It goes beyond the, ‘Hi, how are you?’” The latter question has a sort of practiced social nicety about it, explains Campbell, whereas the former seems to demand a truthful response. “And sometimes it’s diffi cult,” says Campbell, “because if the people I know aren’t OK, am I?” See QUESTION, Page 14
