MANY people have struggled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Workers in care and the NHS face continual stress worrying about likelihood of either catching the virus or passing it on to their service users.
Education staff worry about working in an environment where social distancing is impossible and mask-wearing not mandatory.
Shopworkers and delivery drivers every day confront the fact that they meet hundreds of people and only one needs to have the virus for them to be at risk.
Families with relatives in care worry about their loved ones.
However, for people suffering from mental health issues, the struggles they experience every day, sometimes for years, have been compounded by lockdown, social distancing and the closure of both formal services and the support groups that were a lifeline for them.