How to Care for Your Mental Health During the Coronavirus Lockdown

“Distancing is not the same as isolation,” says Nikole Benders-Hadi, a psychiatrist and the director of behavioral health for Doctor on Demand, another telehealth platform. Talk to the people in your home, go for walks with neighbors (if you’re healthy), socialize from afar—even if you didn’t talk to a particular friend over video or phone before all this, even if you’ve sort of fallen out of keeping in touch with someone, now is the time.

 COVID-19’s parallel pandemic: Why we need a mental health ‘vaccine’

Younger people are at lower risk of severe health outcomes if they develop COVID-19, and are therefore not a priority group for vaccine rollout. However, a silent mental health pandemic wave is in full force, and this time it is targeting younger age groups.

 Gearing Up for the ‘New Normal’

In “The New Normal,” Dr. Jennifer Ashton explores the mental health repercussions of the pandemic and ways to rebuild our overall health.

 Science Plays the Long Game. But People Have Mental Health Issues Now.

I’ve reported on behavior and mental health for 20 years. As I exit, I can’t help but wonder why researchers have placed so little emphasis on helping people in distress today.

 The Coronavirus Seems to Spare Most Kids From Illness, but Its Effect on Their Mental Health Is Deepening

Pandemics can be indiscriminate, with viruses making no distinctions among the victims they attack and those they spare. If you’re human, you’ll do. COVID-19 has been different, particularly when it comes to age.

 When Work Weighs You Down, Take a ‘Sad Day’

Here’s how to protect your mental health in a culture that values work over well-being.

 ‘What’s the Point?’ Young People’s Despair Deepens as Covid-19 Crisis Drags On

Experts paint a grim picture of the struggle with lockdown isolation — a “mental health pandemic” that should be treated as seriously as containing the coronavirus.

Mental Health in the Age of the Coronavirus

Our national identity is being remade in real time. What had once seemed a bitter and divided society now seems more like a nation of people finding creative ways to show up for one another. But it’s also likely that something much darker is going on, especially among the less fortunate.

8-Year-Olds in Despair: The Mental Health Crisis Is Getting Younger

The number of children who need urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and spiked during the pandemic.

A Workout for Your Mental Health

Keep stress from the Covid pandemic and other events under control by sticking with these daily practices.

After COVID-19 Diagnosis, Nearly 1 In 5 Are Diagnosed With Mental Disorder

New research has found that nearly 1 person in 5 diagnosed with COVID-19 is diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder like anxiety, depression or insomnia within three months.

Covid Didn’t Start the Mental-Health Crisis

The devaluing of parental care leaves society—and its children—unprepared to deal with stressful events.

Covid poses 'greatest threat to mental health since second world war'

The coronavirus crisis poses the greatest threat to mental health since the second world war, with the impact to be felt for years after the virus has been brought under control, the country’s leading psychiatrist has said.

Covid-19 has put a major strain on mental health

Our studies of the pandemic are the latest in a vast body of evidence showing that poverty and unemployment are emotionally devastating. They have long-term, intergenerational effects on individual, family and community wellbeing, and on the functioning of whole societies and economies.

Covid-19's Lasting Effects on Mental Health—for Good and Bad

Americans are likely to continue to suffer from more psychological issues after the pandemic subsides. Experts offer their predictions for what that looks like, and what might help.

COVID’s mental health fallout will last a long time. Here’s how we’re targeting pandemic depression and anxiety

The effects of recurrent lockdowns, fears about the effectiveness of the vaccines, restricted movement within and beyond Australia, and the bleak economic outlook are taking their toll on psychological well-being.

Distance May Protect Us From COVID-19. But I Worry About Another Kind of Crisis

Prone to depression to begin with, and living alone on an 80-acre farm, I have found myself fighting those dark dogs and thinking, on more than one occasion, that while we are trying to mitigate one pandemic, we may inadvertently be causing another.

Has the pandemic really caused a 'tsunami' of mental health problems?

Our research shows coronavirus ‘winners’, ‘losers’, and a lot of resilience. Understanding that can help us target support better.

Is the Lockdown Making You Depressed, or Are You Just Bored?

We shouldn’t pathologize normal unpleasant emotions — which doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do something about them.

It Is Becoming Much Harder to Access Mental Health Support Anonymously

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t just a physical health crisis—it’s also a mental one. But online resources for mental health come with privacy risks.

Preventive measures are as important to the mental health pandemic as they are to COVID-19

To slow the spread of COVID-19, we have had to distance, wear masks, improve ventilation and develop vaccines. To reduce the prevalence of mental illnesses, we will need to take a similar, multi-targeted approach, as there is no single solution that addresses all the social determinants of mental health.

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Worsening the Global Mental Health Crisis

“Decades of neglect and underinvestment in addressing mental health needs have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic," the UN has warned.

The Coronavirus Pandemic's Outsized Effect on Women's Mental Health Around the World

COVID-19 is a devilishly versatile disease, attacking all manner of body systems and doing all manner of damage—to the lungs, the heart, the liver, the kidneys. Though it doesn’t attack the mind directly, the pandemic the virus has caused has been devastating to mental health, and in many cases, the most vulnerable group is women.

The doctors are not all right

Doctors need mental health support, but the medical profession often punishes them for getting it.

The Hidden ‘Fourth Wave’ of the Pandemic

“Once we get the pandemic under control, people are going to come up for air, and they will not be OK,” Marques told me. “I think we need a national force to help us guide this and have a coordinated effort toward mental health.”

The pandemic’s toll on mental health: Three shifts in mindset

Over the last year, the Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated an increase in attention on mental health — an area that typically takes a backseat in terms of global health priorities.

The Pandemic’s Toll on Teen Mental Health

But while the CDC oversold the teen Covid narrative, it failed to emphasize the most troubling aspect of its study: 20% of teen hospitalizations in the study between Jan. 1 and March 31, 2021, were for psychiatric emergencies, not Covid.

What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale

People have now lived through 14 months of pandemic life. Millions have endured a year of grief, anxiety, isolation, and rolling trauma. Some will recover uneventfully, but for others, the quiet moments after adrenaline fades and normalcy resumes may be unexpectedly punishing.

‘Nobody Has Openings’: Mental Health Providers Struggle to Meet Demand

With anxiety and depression on the rise during the pandemic, it has been challenging for people to get the help they need.

“You can’t get away from the idea that you’re just lucky to be alive”

Pandemic survivor guilt may be pervasive, but it’s hard to detect, leaving many struggling in silence.