Has COVID Worsened Our Mental Health Or Accelerated a Deterioration Begun Decades Before?

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As a psychiatrist who studies the effects of social change on mental health, I was very interested to know how the COVID pandemic would affect our emotional well-being. The question here is not about being infected with COVID. Rather, it encompasses all of the effects on people’s lives as a result of the pandemic. I was among many experts…