The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns over the past year have taken a physical and mental tole on people worldwide. In part 2 of a two-part series, reporter Cassidy Taylor has statistics on how the pandemic has affected mental health overall and what you can do to improve your own mental health…
An August 2020 publication in the Cognitive Therapy and Research journal reported that the perceived stress related to COVID-19 is associated with a greatly elevated risk of anxiety and depressive disorders, and that the impact of COVID-19 on mental health can be worse for individuals’ experiences with the virus, including personal diagnosis and the death of loved ones.