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What I'm worried about is the number of people who will suffer as a consequence of this worldwide lockdown. Depression, loneliness, suicide, addictive behaviou
by zabana 7y ago
What I'm worried about is the number of people who will suffer as a consequence of this worldwide lockdown.
Depression, loneliness, suicide, addictive behaviours (alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs), high stress due to varying economic factors, panic (media induced) etc ...
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- skat20phys 7y agoThere have been studies of this from previous pandemics. Together with studies from the Great Recession / financial collapse the gist is there's definitely going to be an increase in mental health problems of all those sorts -- substance use, suicide, etc. The interesting thing is that in previous situations deaths attributable to these things was offset by a decrease in deaths due to automobile accidents, workplace stress-related incidents, etc. That doesn't make it ok at all, and it's possible this time around is worse socioeconomically so things aren't offset. But it might not show up in overall trends if you just looked at general disability or death.