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A third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression, Census Bureau data shows, the most definitive and alarming sign yet of the psychological toll exacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
When asked questions normally used to screen patients for mental health problems, 24 percent showed clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30 percent showed symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.
The findings suggest a huge jump from before the pandemic. For example, on one question about depressed mood, the percentage reporting such symptoms was double that found in a 2014 national survey.
The troubling statistics were released last week in a tranche of data from the Census Bureau. The agency launched an emergency weekly survey of U.S. households at the end of April to measure the pandemics effects on employment, housing, finances, education and health. In the most recent data release, 1 million households were contacted between May 7 and 12, and more than 42,000 responded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/26/americans-with-depression-anxiety-pandemic/?arc404=true
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)catrose
(5,068 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)But I guess it's good that they are at least checking to see how many of us peons are affected.
0rganism
(23,957 posts)amazing that they found a more denigrating term than "peon" for us
Nay
(12,051 posts)depressed and anxious.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)It has been harder to focus and even get out of bed. I have also started to sleep poorly.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)and depression that existed even before tRUMP, let alone COVID-19... Of course tRUMP and the virus
have made matters worse...
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Thats where most of the stress is coming from.
This crisis is where the final bifurcation happens in the middle class.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)To paraphrase Shit-for-Brains.
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)trump and pandemic!?!?!?
RandySF
(58,911 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Thankfully legal cannabis here to see us through this FUBAR version of America?