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Serious epidemics, like COVID19, affect mental health – both in short and intermediate terms. Let’s talk about this. 1/
Some initial analyses of the COVID19 epidemic suggested that mental health impact might not be as bad as many had feared. Indeed, in early days of the pandemic, people were surprised to not see a stark rise in suicide (though other mental health indicators did show problems). 2/
One study journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… concluded that psychological distress increased early in the COVID-19 pandemic but that most facets returned to pre-pandemic levels by mid-2020, and that there were notable signs of resilience in life satisfaction, loneliness, and suicide. 3/
