COVID-19 and Mental Health
It has been shown that during infectious disease outbreaks communities can experience significant psychological trauma.
As a result of COVID-19, individuals, families, and communities experience increased levels of anxiety and depression. This is due to reduced or discontinued access to resources such as food, housing, employment, and medical resources.
Mandates for social and physical distancing, mandated isolations, mandated quarantines, and forced evacuations from schools, colleges, universities and places of employment also make it challenging to manage symptoms related to depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
There is an urgent need for providers to offer appropriate crisis management and long-term mental health assessments and interventions for persons exposed to COVID-19; especially as the daily uncertainties of this pandemic continues to emerge.
Although a large proportion of persons exposed to COVID-19 will possess the resiliency to its effects, there will be some of us who are more susceptible to psychological symptoms such as PTSD, depression, anxiety.
