psychiatrist Michal Patarák wrote in a Facebook post in mid-March.
The lockdown honeymoon that Patarák, head of the psychiatric department at one of the country’s biggest hospitals, the F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital in Banská Bystrica, is referring to is what his patients have been through in the pandemic.
In an interview with The Slovak Spectator, Patarák reveals the effect the global coronavirus outbreak has had on the lives of people suffering from severe psychiatric illnesses, and exactly when society as a whole reached “breaking point” and lost what unity it had to fight the spread of the virus.