May 14, 2020
By Raven Ambers
ABC 13
https://abc13.com/mental-illness-linked-to-covid-19-health-coronavirus-social-distancing/6177207/
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Doctors in the Houston area said the unknowns of the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing has led to an increase in mental health patients over the last couple of months.
“Depression and anxiety are one of the more common presenting symptoms for a primary care practice, but for acute depression and anxiety, maybe I usually would see one or two [patients] a week, now I’m seeing two or three a day,” said Dr. Joshua Septimus, an internal medicine doctor at Houston Methodist Hospital.
