Posted on 06/22/2021 11:43:17 AM PDT by Mariner
NEW YORK — If there was a growing mental health crisis before 2020, a new study finds the coronavirus pandemic may have sent it spiraling out of control. Half of Americans feel they lost complete control of their lives during the last year.
A survey of 2,000 people reveals 47 percent feel helpless, while 44 percent say they hit their lowest emotional point within the last year. Since last March, Americans report struggling more with anxiety (42%), depression (37%), and loneliness (31%) than ever before.
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Every month of 2020 was progressively worse and it has continued to be the same in 2021.
January 2021 was worse than December 2020 was worse than November 2020 was worse than... all the way back to January 2020.
And this year still continues to suck.
And then list the things you are PISSED OFF about.
Did that make you depressed?
Anger was the normal and appropriate reaction to the pandemic lockdown.
Sounds rough but at least the ending was good.
I know of someone who was unable to see her spouse (of 50 years) after he went into the hospital and suffered for over a month (until he eventually died from Covid).
My own mom was put into a rehabilitation center for several months in 2020 (for an infection/antiobiotic and physical therapy) and we were unable to visit her and worried about the transmission of Covid while she was there.
Yes, things are still fairly bleak on many fronts.
Yeah, seriously. It must be nice for this sizable cohort of the population to have experienced so little in the way of tragedy in their lives that having to wear a mask at Target and Disneyland being closed constitute, like, the worst things ever.
I wonder how these babies would have done while being shelled in Vietnam. Now that would be an actual low point.
“It can get lower.”
I don’t know. What’s more devastating than not having your toilet paper?
Yes, that too.
And the government banning the use of HCQ and Ivermectin to save hundreds of thousands of lives...all to protect their EUA to make Fauci’s pharma buddies rich.
Yes. Self-isolated. Worked from home for several months. Saw no more than 5 people in that time (and often not for days) outside of “cashiers” at grocers and gas stations.
That is not civilized.
Nothing was open. No place to go.
The pandemic...the worst part was not being able to visit people in hospitals, nursing homes etc.. Never again. We know how to isolate. Just do it next time!!
It made me angry.
Angry at the fools that allowed it to escape, those who sponsored and conducted the research.
And angry at both the social and official response.
The whole event p!ssed me off.
Our only store in town had empty shelves two decades before Venezuela made them popular. I’ve now decided it is less stressful to drive four towns over to Wallyworld which still has limits and lots of items out of stock.
FYI, it was 2+ weeks after the TX freeze when WM got back into full swing again. Dairy products were the last to get back on the shelves. And that was with trucks lining up to make deliveries the minute the roads were open. File that for future use.
Yup, once you know voting no longer matters, that some people are allowed to riot but others get rounded up for a more “peaceful protest”, it’s a bit hard to take.
Yes, it was very tense. The kids came over and we all sat in the driveway, 6 feet apart from each other on lawn chairs, discussing it. And I could tell the 9 year old granddaughter had been crying.
Then some of them left, and my daughter and her then-fiancé came in the house with me, and she is an RN, and she also talked on the phone to the hospital people, and she agreed that they were telling me he should be unplugged the next day.
Yes, it was so scary, and he never even realized all of that happened.
I also got very angry, and manifested as tight muscles in my back, resulting in pinched sciatic nerve, and I am still working on trying to get back to being myself. I really don’t drink much, and have tried to NOT take pain meds, so it has been a long haul with very slow progress.
It doesn’t help that so much is going on in DC, that still roils up my anger every day.
Always save 10% of your check no matter how much soup you have to eat it’s worth in the long run.
I’m not playing this game...people are weak.
The reasons are all around us.
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