COVID-19: the perfect vector for a mental health epidemic

In times of crisis, people have historically had to band together to overcome. What happens when they cannot? This article examines the reality of people forced to isolate from one another during one of the most turbulent events of their lives: the COVID-19 pandemic. Connecting the dots of topics in...

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Autores principales: Hisham, Idura N., Townsend, Giles, Gillard, Steve, Debnath, Brishti, Sin, Jacqueline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32475375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.60
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description In times of crisis, people have historically had to band together to overcome. What happens when they cannot? This article examines the reality of people forced to isolate from one another during one of the most turbulent events of their lives: the COVID-19 pandemic. Connecting the dots of topics including fear, social stigmas, global public response and previous disease outbreaks, this article discusses the negative mental health effects that individuals and communities will likely suffer as the result of social distancing, isolation and physical infection.
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spelling pubmed-73085972020-06-23 COVID-19: the perfect vector for a mental health epidemic Hisham, Idura N. Townsend, Giles Gillard, Steve Debnath, Brishti Sin, Jacqueline BJPsych Bull Special Articles In times of crisis, people have historically had to band together to overcome. What happens when they cannot? This article examines the reality of people forced to isolate from one another during one of the most turbulent events of their lives: the COVID-19 pandemic. Connecting the dots of topics including fear, social stigmas, global public response and previous disease outbreaks, this article discusses the negative mental health effects that individuals and communities will likely suffer as the result of social distancing, isolation and physical infection. Cambridge University Press 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7308597/ /pubmed/32475375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.60 Text en © The Authors 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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