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Reply to "Research Snapshot: The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale, a five-item mental health screener"

Just for a little caution in our deployment of these kinds of screens, which I do think is a useful tool as for sure some people are experiencing the added wieght of covid in their lives, useful article

Is COVID-19 Making Everybody Crazy? by   is here.

The coronavirus pandemic has provided a golden opportunity for some psychotherapists, Big Pharma-funded entities, and others, who have sounded an alarm, claiming that massive numbers of people are “mentally ill” because of fears of the virus and reactions to social distancing.

Media producers have promoted these warnings during May, which was deemed Mental Health Awareness Month. A recent Washington Post article headlined “A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression, Census Bureau finds amid coronavirus pandemic” made that claim. And in a recent New York Times article, psychologist Andrew Solomon, reporting data that nearly half of respondents said the pandemic harmed their “mental health,” shockingly equated this with mental illness becoming “universal reality.” .....

see the rest of the article here: 

https://www.madinamerica.com/2...ttMX1tuwd5BAPBVInsl4


It would be great to keep monitoring and seeing what the research group ... evaluates.  Angela will you be doing that?

 

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