The Big Mental Health Reboot
Let’s say it together: 2020 has been hard. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused levels of heartache we could never have imagined, with many people getting sick, losing loved ones, and facing job insecurity. And even if you were spared the worst of it, being separated from friends, partners, and family hasn’t exactly been easy.
In fact, the pandemic has taken such a toll that experts are now warning about an impending psychological ‘tsunami’. They’re attributing it to an increase in mental health problems, coupled with the universal struggle to accommodate the surge in demand for mental health services, and our attempts to ‘power through’ or put on a brave face ‘because others have it worse’.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our lives and messed around with our sanity,” says Samantha Carbon, a UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) psychotherapist.
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