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"As bad as the mental health numbers sound, they are not an entirely fair portrait of what’s really going on."
In a way this is so obvious, but it's still worth saying, because /1 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nurturing-resilience/202101/is-mental-health-really-getting-worse-during-the-pandemic
In a way this is so obvious, but it's still worth saying, because /1 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nurturing-resilience/202101/is-mental-health-really-getting-worse-during-the-pandemic
it's not really part of the conversation right now: not everyone's mental health has been badly affected this last year. For example, the below study of over 70,000 adults found that /2 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30482-X/fulltext
between March and August 2020, anxiety and depression symptoms actually dropped, on average. But the *average* bit is what's key - we know that some individuals and demographics have been affected far more than others. /3
If we tell the story that everyone's suffering, then we miss seeing or hearing the people who really are in difficultly or crisis, and many are. It would be more helpful to focus effort and attention on those who are struggling, rather than saying that everyone is
