Opinion: We must mind our mental health as Level 5 brings a forced introspection

Cathal O'Reilly A NEW SURVEY released on World Mental Health Day showed that one in two people feel their mental health has been affected as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Overcrowding in psychiatric hospitals has lead to some patients to sleeping on the floors in the past. People are being put on waiting lists with no communication for months and unfortunately, some people, when they ask for help, are being turned away by the services if the threat is not deemed urgent enough for hospitalisation.

For people who have experienced mental health issues in the past, the pandemic continues to be an extremely uncertain and stressful time. In some cases, it may lead to the relapse of an acute condition which can sometimes lead to hospital admission, but at the very least Covid-19, unsurprisingly, is causing an acute level of worry.

It is often the message that we hear around mental health however as hard as it may be, finding the courage to start to speak about how you are feeling at the early stages really is the best policy.

The is fakenews and dosent give a shit about Irish people.

We're going to hit you but it's up to you not to feel any pain?

And what’s good for mental health? Getting out to do exercise! Can you do that in the cold wet dark winter nights No! Could you do it in a gym/leisure centre? Yes but hey the clueless clowns in charge deemed them not essential

Okay

What about the mental health of the guy who your Editor tried to get fired from his job during a pandemic, simply for calling one of your articles weird?

Stop filling peoples heads with bullshit everyday so

If ever there was an example of how ultra liberalism leads to authoritarianism, The Journal's tweet feed provides the evidence. Having championed a Covid-19 worse case scenario narrative for months, now they're pissing down our backs and telling us it's raining.

Or just not do this silly quarantine thing.

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