Posted June 12, 2020/Updated June 16, 2020
By Todd Ackermann
Houston Chronicle
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/prognosis/article/COVID-19-mental-health-pandemic-epidemic-despair-15334401.php
COVID-19 has already claimed the lives of more than 115,000 Americans, but one of the disease’s most serious and lasting effects is just starting to hit: the mental health toll.
The coming crisis, created by massive unemployment, social isolation and uncertainty about the future, has already caused a doubling of anxiety and depression from 2014, according to a U.S. Census Bureau survey released late last month. Now, a Texas group is predicting the ultimate mental health cost: a big spike in deaths because of suicide and drug overdose.
