The unbearable sadness of lockdown

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Loneliness can seem like a hopeless hole that increases anxiety, depression, fears or thoughts of suicide

includes the following sentiment: “For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

Feeling foolish about this normal reaction denies the tangible effects that living through the pandemic and lockdown have on our mental health. It can also translate into recklessness, especially in young people, who may feel a sense of “throw caution to the wind, you only live once”. After all, Covid-19 has little or no bearing on them.

Young people are grieving for what they lost because of Covid-19. This was going to be the year of #TwentyPlenty. The loss of their expectations feels almost visceral. has seen calls to its helpline double since the start of the lockdown, and has received up to 1 400 cries for help a day.and local experts have called for authorities to prioritise mental health as the wellbeing of whole societies has been severely impacted by the pandemic.

 

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