“Mental health” has been offered as a reason for why we need to open the economy. It’s a scapegoat.
has had a doubling in volume, with 1 in 5 people mentioning the coronavirus in conversation. But the fact that we are living through a pandemic may be all the heightened volume represents. Even before the coronavirus, the majority of callers to crisis lines areThe narrative seems to be that someone who is home alone, facing financial stressors and family stressors, will turn to substance use, anxiety, or depression, and eventually suicide.
It is easy to create a narrative to push an agenda—the agenda, in this case, being that we need to restart the economy and end isolation. It is also easy to once again distract from public health needs by putting the spotlight—and blame—on mental illness. We see this frequently after mass shootings, when mental illness is often blamed as a way toaway from debate about firearm policies.
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