How To Stay Mentally Well During And After The Pandemic
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Around one in six of us normally experience mental health challenges in the course of a year, but this is estimated to have increased to one in three as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Jim Lucey is a consultant psychiatrist at St Patrick s University Hospital, Dublin and clinical professor of psychiatry at Trinity College.
He has written a book called
A Whole New Plan For Living: Achieving Balance and Wellness In A Changing World, which proposes and explores ten steps to help prepare ourselves for challenges by building and practicing balance and wellbeing our daily lives.
Professor Jim Lucey and I begin our Zoom call with me asking how he is. "Well," he says with a laugh, "it s a long story really." And we re off, embarked on an interview that is chatty, discursive, anecdotal, full of reminiscences from Lucey s 30-year career in medicine and psychiatry, all held together by discussion of his new book, A Whole New Plan For Living, written in response to the Covid crisis.