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How to advise patients who are struggling with mental health issues due to the pandemic

By The DO Staff

06.23.22

From the beginning of COVID, psychiatrists warned that after the pandemic ended, there would be a new pandemic, the mental health pandemic. Sadly, that is now exactly what we are seeing. We were already experiencing a mental health crisis in our country prior to COVID-19, but over the past two years, we have seen the COVID pandemic worsen mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorders.