Almost 60% of people say their mental health has been impacted by the pandemic, with younger people more likely to have experienced recent difficulties with their well-being.
The research - based on an online questionnaire with 1,621 people earlier this month - shows over 15% said they were downhearted or depressed "all or most of the time", in the four weeks before the survey.Almost three quarters of those aged between 18 and 34 said the pandemic was having a negative impact on their mental health, compared to less than a third of those aged 70 or older.
Just over 4% of those surveyed said the events of the last year had a positive impact on their mental health.
Pity there’s not a PCR test for mental health. Then we would see a true pandemic.....
60% is optimistic...
There seems to be a flare up of skin problems like excema and psoriasis, linked to stress. Doctor's don't care about skin problems and the market for treatment is poor.
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Well duh, imagine having your life messed up by this “pandemic” each day I have to live with the fact that this is where we are at and I don’t see an end, dreadful.
'The survey shows general support for the present Level 5 restrictions, but more than 60% of respondents believe that similar measures will have to be reimposed sometime before the end of this year'...They must all be antivaxers in the survey.....
Whereas 100% of rte viewers suffer from mental health issues or else they'd turn ye off.
The lockdown is causing more damage than the virus at this stage. I've always had strong mental health now slowly but surely I'm starting to suffer. I've followed PH advice to the T this last year. No more. Enough is enough.
At this stage I feel like I'd be better off dead.
Don’t tell me it has taken you 11 months to realise that. As a teen, the best years of my life have been wasted, my education disrupted and my social life waned. There was little point in taking that survey because the data will be of futile and redundant use to the govt.
No shit.
no shit really
They should be allowed to meet and socialise. Just do it OUTSIDE. (Bring a coat.)
The same ones who now claim to have covid related depression, didn’t give a hoot about chronic depressed and suicidal patients before the pandemic, telling them to get over it, move on
Only thing we can do to help these people is get them to understand that permanent lockdown is the right thing for all of us.If we can create a culture of permanent lockdown,eventually we will forget how it was and live a safer life in our homes interacting only via the internet
When there has been this level of abnormality for so long, is it any wonder people's mental health has deteriorated to such an extent?
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