Mental health is clearly badly affected by lockdowns. The answer though is not to stop having lockdowns - they are the only weapon against covid at the moment - but to increase mental health provision in this country. Sadly, the government currently cba to.
I’m tweeting into the ether really. I just keep reading stuff about mental health and COVID, as if it’s an either/or situation. I don’t think it should be.
Nadine Dorries actually stood up in the commons recently and said that if anything, many people’s MH had been *improved* by the pandemic, because they didn’t have to commute any more. Yes, really.
I’m so pissed about it that I have written tomorrow’s @telegraph column about it.
Quite a few people don’t have to commute any more because... they’ve lost their jobs. Famously good for your mental health 😳
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