It’s Not You, It’s The World: Covid, Mental Health, and What Comes Next

There is plenty of information coming out of the CDC about COVID
that has nothing to do with actual viruses in droplets. America’s
mental health condition is not really good right now, with rates
of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation measuring way, way
above how they were before the pandemic. Once the virus is
contained and the worst of the threat has passed, we won’t be out
of the woods. We’ll just be entering a different kind of woods.
In this week’s episode, a talk about how complex trauma from a
period such as this is likely to affect us in the long term.
Short answer: it’s going to get nasty. At the same time, we are
well positioned to talk to each other, share sympathy, and share
kindness because of modern technology and because of a growing
openness in society to talk about mental health challenges.


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