Posted on 05/22/2021 9:41:54 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Doctors are forecasting what some experts are now calling “the fourth wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say the mental health impacts will be “profound and far-reaching,” likely outlasting the physical health impacts, and straining already-stretched mental health systems in the United States and worldwide....
“The pandemic has produced a petri dish of psychological factors that may lead to emotional health problems: anxiety, brain fog, depression, and PTSD,” says Luana Marques, a psychologist and professor at Harvard Medical School...
During the pandemic’s first nine months, six times as many American adults reported mental health issues as in early 2019....
Soaring suicide rates in Japan prompted the appointment of a “minister of loneliness” in February.....
“Emergency rooms and hospitals are now bulging with children and families in crisis,” says Christina Gurnett, a pediatric neurologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri. Their symptoms—from eating and sleep disorders to anger, anxiety, self-harm, and aggression—aren’t unique, but they are more common and severe. A Harvard study of 224 U.S. children aged seven to 15 found that two-thirds had clinically significant anxiety and depression symptoms—more than double that of 2019....
Some are suffering from what European psychologists Marcantonio Spada and Ana Nikčević dubbed “COVID-19 anxiety syndrome.” It’s characterized by coping behaviors “that can keep people locked into a state of continuous anxiety and fear,” with people afraid to go out, avoiding people and public places, and worrying constantly about themselves or others contracting the virus, Spada says.
Symptoms mirror other conditions, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and PTSD, and mimic the psychological consequences of living through war or disaster, both of which disrupt societies and bring great loss. After a year, Spada says, these habits may be hard to shed....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...
“The pandemic has produced a petri dish of psychological factors that may lead to emotional health problems: anxiety, brain fog, depression, and PTSD,”
I don’t get it.
I suspect these people were mentally ill before the pandemic.
My wife, although vaccinated, is terrified of being within 20 feet of another human. She now washes every piece from the grocery store with antibacterial soap. It’s sad.
National Geographic is now just another cog in the leftwing propaganda machine.
Nat Geo reminds me of the vagina of one of the topless tribal women they use to put in their magazine before is became a crime to show brown people in a primitive state.
I’m sure she’s a wonderful woman, and I mean no disrespect, but that’s extremely neurotic behavior.
Trump warned of the psychological toll lockdowns would cause, but he was lampooned by Dems and the MSM.
All of those terms were way overused before the pandemic. Now, they mean even less.
I don’t know her age or any co-morbidities but if they aren’t factors, you need to get her some professional mental help.....
Then I read she has already had the shot......
She needs help to cope with an irrational fear, it won’t get better on its own, it will only get worse...
Best of luck!
I have been making a concerted effort to educate my children throughout this pandemic in the foolishness of government and some people.
Now, more than ever, I’ve been de-programming the “human contact is dangerous” and the “we should all inconvenience ourselves for the greater good” and the “your freedom is selfish” propaganda.
We must fight back as our impressionable children are the true victims... and the intended victims.
My three, strong children will replace me in the fight for freedom and conservative values. I hope everyone here tries the same.
I think m they are just snowflakes that melt at the slightest little bit of heat. Can you Imagine a pioneer woman, alone out on a prairy in the middle of nowhere, no electricity, no running water, no refrigerator, no conveniences at all. Practically, her husband off for weeks trying to hunt for food to ,eep them alive because theircrops failed, listening to these snowflakes today whining about ptsd because they are afraid to go back out I. Public without a mask on?
I hope she is hot or very rich or ideally both. Or really smart and good to have conversation with. Probably lacking in smarts a little. Or you have young children together. Otherwise I question the value of such a relationship.
I guess everything is probably really clean, though. My first wife was a motel maid and our house was always very clean. She, unfortunately, lacked ambition and a wasn’t that pretty. The minuses were much greater than having a clean house. I was glad when she left me for another man.
“Government-induced PTSD”
Fear-based control.
The culmination of decades of experimentation in population manipulation, ‘free speech’ has now been weaponized against freedom.
Our Founders weren’t perfect; but I’m afraid we’re past the point of change via ‘the pen’...
Those aren’t the result of “coping behaviors” — those are the foreseen effects of governmental overreach and panic stoked by the complicit media.
We can’t say all democrats are like this. Chicago back to killing each other like it never happened.
We’ve become a nation of snowflakes. Any little problem becomes a crisis. Wait until the cell phone networks go down due to hackers or some other reason, they will commit suicide.
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If you’re panicking after the panicky pandemic, then you needed medical help to begin with imo.
If we had people like this in America in the 30’s and 40’s, we’d all be speaking Japanese right now.
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