- WasteOfGoodSuffering wrote:
- Today in Clio, Michigan a 25 yr old man came to the walmart, bought a shotgun.. went outside, got on top of his car and started screaming that the world was going to end & that the government was trying to kill us all before blowing his head off in front of multiple people. Multiple cars had to be rinsed by the fire department of blood and brain matter. What a strange time we're living in.
Damn. Well, I'm sure there will be a lot more such incidents coming, and worse. The COVID-19 lockdown has caused a mental health pandemic and hardly anyone cares. People love to virtue signal about caring about mental health until it comes time to actually do anything about it. Prolonged social isolation is known to be strongly linked to developing or worsening mental health issues, and then when you put the judicially enforced hypochondria, economic issues, and job losses on top of it, it's just a recipe for disaster. I almost didn't survive the lockdown, and I don't think I would have survived it if not for my husband.
"a year's worth of suicide attempts in the past four weeks"
Suicides on the rise amid stay-at-home order, Bay Area medical professionals say
"People with no history of mental illness are developing serious psychological problems for the first time as a result of the lockdown, amid growing stresses over isolation, job insecurity, relationship breakdown and bereavement, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has disclosed.
Adults and children are having psychotic episodes, mania and depression, with some taken to hospital because of the heavy toll on their mental wellbeing.
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Eight weeks into lockdown measures, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning that services could be overwhelmed by “a tsunami of mental illness”.
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One mental health nurse said that she and her colleagues were seeing people with a set of symptoms they had christened “corona-psychosis”. Such patients have typically lost their job and are having trouble sleeping, becoming anxious from watching the news on TV and no longer getting social support through their normal networks.
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One psychiatrist told the college that “lockdown has exacerbated behavioural difficulties in children” and another that they had seen “patients having severe psychotic symptoms which incorporate Covid-related themes”.
UK lockdown causing 'serious mental illness in first-time patients'
Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says
"A study comparing post-traumatic stress symptoms in parents and children quarantined with those not quarantined found that the mean post-traumatic stress scores of the quarantined children were four times higher than in those who weren't quarantined.
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In April, calls to a national mental-health hotline were up 1,000% over the same period last year."
Nation’s Top Mental-Health Official Warns Against a Second Coronavirus Lockdown
“I do believe the shelter in place has played a role, in the past two to three months people have tended to use more of these substances,” behavior health specialist Mira Parwiz told KRON 4. “We are seeing more substance abuse calls and overdoses.”
Santa Clara Sees Spike in Fentanyl Overdoses Under Shelter-In-Place
This is one I'm especially concerned about. I have OCD/hypochondria and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy and it really upsets me that a bunch of children might come out of this with such a debilitating, lifelong illness, which it's really hard to get treatment for, and which tends to be a subject of mockery in pop culture. (And so many people I know have gotten mad at me because I've tried to avoid panic/depression spiraling by being objective in the assessment of my risk level, for example dispelling the "people in their 20s and 30s are dropping dead in the streets en masse" kind of talk that some people are engaging in.)
How coronavirus and lockdown could make OCD more common in children
Subject: Clio, Michigan public suicide 
Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:37 pm
