{"id":6093,"date":"2024-03-19T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:44:45","slug":"four-years-after-the-pandemic-began-a-mental-health-crisis-continues-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/19\/four-years-after-the-pandemic-began-a-mental-health-crisis-continues-across-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years after the pandemic began, a mental health crisis continues across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/health\/2024\/03\/19\/covid-overdose-deaths-mental-health\/stories\/202403170144\">Pittsburgh Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empty roadways. Empty restaurants. Empty movie theaters and shopping malls and schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 19, 2020, the world was grappling with the newly emerging Sars-CoV-2 virus. A day earlier, the state had seen its first COVID-related death. Then-Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto announced the city was further restricting \u201cface-to-face interactions\u201d between city employees and residents. Across the country, as isolation set in, more people began reporting signs of depression.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years later, as the roads fill with commuters again and restaurants reopen for in-person dining, people have had to grapple with the rapid reorganization of their lives \u2014&nbsp;first in the lockdown portion of the pandemic and then again as they emerged back into a changed world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many struggling with their mental health, the crisis and the rapid changes brought about during the recovery served to amplify deep-seated problems. The rates of depression and drug overdoses that spiked during the early days of the pandemic remain stubbornly, dangerously high.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Post Empty roadways. Empty restaurants. Empty movie theaters and shopping malls and schools. On March 19, 2020, the world was grappling with the newly emerging Sars-CoV-2 virus. A day earlier, the state had seen its first COVID-related death. Then-Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto announced the city was further restricting \u201cface-to-face interactions\u201d between city employees and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}