'A long, dark winter': Experts worry about mental health in first full COVID-19 winter

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Psychologists have worried about the mental health toll of rising COVID-19 cases and tightened restrictions for months -- add in the shorter days and colder weather of the approaching season, and we could be in for what one expert called a 'long, dark winter.'

Last Updated Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:44PM EDT

"When we saw that everything we were doing was having an effect and the numbers were dropping, that empowered us. It made us feel like we're beating this thing," Joordens said."And that is great until the numbers start to go up and we start hearing that more restrictions are going to be in place and ... we might start to feel like everything we did didn't matter. It came back anyway.

She said it's important for people to keep the routine of communication going with their friends and family, just in a modified way this winter. "Feelings of loneliness do not depend on how many people physically surround you," he said. "It depends on how you connect with others." "But we don't know how to fight, and we can't flee," Joordens said. "So we're left with this feeling that's becoming chronic, it's engaged all the time."

 

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Seen and unseen.

Mental health us already rampid in the country, it won't get any better, that's for sure.

'Experts'

open...the....gyms... scary to think we might not even have ice rinks open for the first time in my life...

Who's fault is that?

Ya think? Still you keep the fear mongering coming.

Its Canada eh ... get use to it or get the fuk out

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