With so much grief and tragedy compounding the loneliness so many of us felt before, it begs the question: What will our collective mental health look like when we emerge from this crisis? MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
Still, Dr. Christine Moutier, the chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Preventionthat during times of national crises “we actually tend in most instances to see suicide rates diminish.”
To deny that we were already, as a society, struggling with mental health during the best of times would be disingenuous—and it’s true that the pandemic is particularly traumatizing for frontline workers., the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in New York City, recently died by suicide after she reportedly told her father about the horrific scenes she’d encountered at work due to COVID-19.
“We’re in a unique position where it’s our civic duty to protect others and ourselves by practicing social distancing, while wanting to feel connected to others during this difficult time,” she tells. “We won’t be able to fully understand the mental health repercussions of this situation until we’re able to study them, once this is all over. But we’re already seeing the short-term effects of loneliness as a society.
Young people, as a demographic, have been shown in some data to be particularly lonely. A pre-pandemic
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