The mental health emergency: How has to coronavirus pandemic impacted our mental health?

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Mind carried out research to understand the experiences of people with pre-existing mental health problems, the challenges that they are facing, the coping strategies that they are using, and the support they would like to receive from the charity. More than 16,000 people have shared their experiences of mental health during the pandemic as part of this research.

Key findings: More than two thirds of adults with mental health problems reported that their mental health got worse during lockdown. As a direct consequence of the pandemic and all that follows, many people who were previously well will now develop mental health problems. Pre-existing inequalities have been worsened by the pandemic, and this report highlights how the pandemic’s effects on mental health have been disproportionate. Women, people with disabilities, those living in social housing, people with eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, or personality disorders, and frontline workers are more likely to report that their mental health has declined.