“People want to get support during this very tumultuous time,” Dr. Ken Duckworth, chief medical officer at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), told TODAY. “Everybody is vulnerable to (COVID-19). There's no population that is immune to this. It’s important to keep in ...
COVID-19 is a frightening, stress-inducing, and unchartered territory for all. It is suggested that stress, loneliness, and the emotional toll of the pandemic will result in increased numbers of those who will seek psychological intervention, need support, and guidance on how to cope with a t...
About four years ago, I started taking my mental health seriously. Mental illness and addiction run in my family, and I wanted to manage it better than previous generations had (bless them, they did the best they could). Just as I would get regular mammograms if breast cancer ran in my ...
Interest and concern for employee mental health and wellbeing has grown significantly over the last five years and employers are grappling with what they can and should be doing. The residual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have increased workplace stress and increased stress in our home lives....
As much as COVID has created a greater need for these groups, it's also provided a community of helpers. "There are so many people who are confined to their home or out of work, working from computers and off of their cellphones, who have the time to help and just need something to...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantines effectively prevented the spread of COVID-19 but also caused people to develop mental health problems. We thus aimed to verify the impact of social support and resilience on mental health and to uncover the moderating role played by time in isolation ...
How to Be an Ally: Working Through Your Emotions and Embracing Compassion Let’s be honest: Learning that a coworker has a chronic illness, such as long COVID, can evoke a range ofuncomfortable emotions, from sadness to fear, frustration, pity, or helplessness. It can also evoke a profoun...
Is COVID airborne? The virus can get into your lungs if someone who has it breathes out and you breathe it in. Experts are divided on how often it spreads through this airborne route. How long does COVID stay in the air? Research shows the virus can live in the air for up to 3 ...
Residents at their windows during a Covid-19 lockdown on April 25, 2020 in Singapore. A leading insurer in Singapore reported a 36% increase over the past year in claim costs related to mental health. Photo: Ore Huiying/Getty Images ...
Psychiatric disorders, and especially severe mental illness, are associated with an increased risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection and COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. People with severe mental illness should therefore be prioritised in vaccine allocation strategies. ...