The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, adding new stressors to everyday life. We had to deal with death, supply chain shortages, constantly changing regulations, and not being able to see friends or family. While we adapted to the new way of life as a whole, all of these things have taken a toll on everyone’s mental health. Showing in a study from the World Health Organization that anxiety and depression increased 25% globally. The largest cause for this was increased isolation because of fear of catching the disease. The World Health Organization also found that women and children were the most likely to suffer from increased mental distress.
This situation has highlighted some pre-existing issues within health care systems. Increased awareness of the fact that research and problems were going at different speeds. The research that scientists were conducting on cells, and mice was having little impact on what was actually happening in the world around them. They were studying depression, while suicide rates were skyrocketing. One of the major problems in assessing the mental health of the country is that it is very different from other illnesses and the way we go about resolving these issues should be approached in a new way. Rather than approaching mental health by simply identifying the problem, there is a push from the scientists to find ways to deal with these issues instead.
In an attempt to fix this ongoing crisis, President Biden addressed his focus on mental health in his state of the union address. His speech focused on how proper mental health care affects everyone in the United States. While his comments inspired many people in the field, there are still doubts that other governmental roadblocks, like congress, will disrupt the plan. The president outlined his plan, emphasizing the mental health of children, encouraging development in the mental health sector of medical practices, increasing funding, and requiring insurance to cover mental health service cost coverage.
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