COVID-19 proves that suicide is much more than a personal struggle
As the United States settles into fall, fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen are coming true. Infection rates have spiked in the midwest and Great Plains. There's a resurgence of COVID-19 in several neighborhoods in New York City, where restrictions tamed the virus' spread after a tragic spring.
Yet mental health experts are also deeply concerned about another worrisome trend. An article published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association described a "second wave" of mental health and substance use disorders that threaten to inundate and overwhelm the healthcare system. Its authors, who are psychiatrists at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, expect the surge to bring increased deaths from drug overdoses and suicides. Read more...
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