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I personally know many people who are suffering from severe pandemic-related anxiety and depression who have not contracted the disease. The current discourse
by blix 6y ago
I personally know many people who are suffering from severe pandemic-related anxiety and depression who have not contracted the disease.
The current discourse and societal response to the disease seems likely to have as big or larger of a mental health effect than the immediate consequences of the disease itself.
- chachachoney 6y agoThe lack of a proper societal response to the disease, and what that reveals about the fragile state of our civilization is what's responsible for severe pandemic-related anxiety.
- blix 6y agoThere's truth to this, but I don't think it's the whole picture. It's certainly possible to be concerned about the state of civilization without "doomscrolling" or checking covid death numbers each morning. These behaviors are consequences of the media landscape more than of the disease itself.