FOMO hasn’t gone away during lockdown, it’s just moved online – but if everything’s cancelled because of the coronavirus, why are we still so afraid of missing out?

The coronavirus pandemic has cancelled many things, but FOMO – the “fear of missing out” – doesn’t appear to be one of them.Jennifer Wolkin, a New York-based clinical health and neuropsychologist, describes FOMO as “anxiety that’s elicited by the perception that others are thriving while we aren’t, or that others are overall experiencing a better version of life”.In other words, you know that sinking feeling you get when you see other people on holiday while you’re sitting at home? That’s FOMO…

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