Eden Harel asks for advice on coping with worry over her soldier son

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News anchor Eden Harel turned to her followers on social media and asked mothers of soldiers for advice on coping with worry over her son Oriya, who is in Lebanon. Harel wrote that she is struggling to function as usual while her son is at the front. "How do you function? How do you get through this?" Harel asked, noting that the boy is in Lebanon and that she is supposed to get up in the morning and function as usual.

Harel shared that she is trying to understand how to get through the period without projecting stress to the other children. "I'm going crazy," she wrote, adding that the coping is shattering and the worry is endless. Alongside the difficulty and the thoughts that will not let go, she shared that in the complex moments she holds on to faith.

Harel asked for the advice of experienced mothers on coping with worry over her son, who has completed a course and is at the front. Her request rests on the central difficulty she faces in trying to maintain a routine alongside anxiety.