The Generation of Children Raised by Fear
Molly Kingsley, Liz Cole … Fuelled by that fear, we locked our young in their rooms for days on end, padlocked their playgrounds and stopped them from seeing their grandparents and friends … Fuelled by fear we breached our species’ most basic social compact: to protect our young, abandoning at so many touch points our […]
Mental Health and Substance Use During COVID-19: Spotlight on Suicidal Ideation and Substance Use
Mental Health Commission of Canada People with substance use concerns are among those most likely to report thoughts about suicide, according to our latest Leger poll. While everyone has been affected by stresses brought on by two years of the pandemic, it’s clear that not everyone has been impacted equally. Thoughts of suicide are also […]
Men’s Mental Health and Suicide in Canada – Key Takeaways
Mental Health Commission of Canada Of the estimated 4,000 suicide deaths in Canada each year, close to 75 per cent are men. This resource summarizes the key takeaways from the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Men: Evidence Brief. Based on findings from the Evidence Brief, this resource highlights statistics on men’s mental health and suicidal […]
Psychiatry Will Not Save Us from Lockdown Harm
Robert Freudenthal The mental health consequences of our pandemic response are predictable, with many warning right from the start of the likely psychiatric consequences of the withdrawing of most structures of civic society for a period of months on end. Too often the priorities are framed as a balancing act between “physical health consequences from […]
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health
Bilal Laved, Abdullah Sarwer, Erik B. Soto, Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health A pandemic is not just a medical phenomenon; it affects individuals and society and causes disruption, anxiety, stress, stigma, and xenophobia. … Throughout the world, the public is being informed about the physical effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection and […]
Death and Dying: A Reflection on How Mourning Changed During the Pandemic
Gabriel M. Alexandre Silva et al. As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) struck the world with a swift and widespread movement, many lifestyle changes were enforced onto the population as countermeasures in order to save as many lives as possible and to lower the resource consumption as much as possible … Indeed, […]
The Long and Short of “Long Covid”
El Gato Malo a challenge in assessing “long covid” is that psychosomatic illness is a real and prevalent issue as is generalized ill health. many feel themselves to be sick and to have general or non-specific symptoms of “brain fog” or “unwellness” or “low energy.” this has been a longstanding feature of the public and […]
Mental Health, Suicidality, and Connectedness Among High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January-June 2021
Sherry Everett Jones, Kathleen A. Ethier, Marci Hertz, Sarah DeGue, Vi Donna Le, Jemekia Thornton, Connie Lim, Patricia J. Dittus, Sindhura Geda Disruptions and consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including school closures, social isolation, family economic hardship, family loss or illness, and reduced access to health care, raise concerns about their effects on the […]
