MENTAL HEALTH
Mental Health Problems Faced By COVID Survivors
How Diseases Affect Our Minds
From discoveries, the scare research on mental health studies during COVID focused on the physical consequence of the disease more than mental. However, large-scale catastrophic events are almost always coupled with increases in depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance use disorder.
For instance, 1 in 10 adults from New York met the measures for major depressive disorder a month after 9/11. Almost 25% of adults reported increased alcohol usage after the disaster. Similarly, the SARS epidemic was proven to increase PTSD, stress, and other psychological problems in patients, as proven in research titled, ‘Stress and psychological distress among SARS survivors one year after the outbreak.’
