HONG KONG: Zhang Meng had a breakdown last December. The 20-year-old found herself sobbing on the stairs of her dorm, driven to despair by repeated COVID-19 lockdowns of her university campus in Beijing. The lockdowns had meant she was mostly confined to her room and unable to meet up with friends. There w
HONG KONG: Zhang Meng had a breakdown last December. The 20-year-old found herself sobbing on the stairs of her dorm, driven to despair by repeated COVID-19 lockdowns of her university campus in Beijing.
It's an effort it has shown little sign of abandoning, but the policy's impact on mental health alarms medical experts and as Zhang's and Yao's experiences have shown, it is already taking its toll. Workers in protective suits disinfect a classroom at a school to prepare for the resumption of classes following the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China, on May 30, 2022. During Shanghai's two-month lockdown this year, for instance, some 15 to 18-year-olds had to isolate by themselves at hotels as they were not allowed to return home.
More broadly across age groups, searches for"psychological counselling" on Chinese search engine Baidu more than tripled in the first seven months of 2022 compared to the same period a year earlier. According to a Fudan University survey of around 4,500 young people this year, about 70 per cent expressed varying degrees of anxiety.
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