Mental health services are starting to see an increase in people with complex mental health issues, such as psychosis, during the coronavirus pandemic. But with good support, some people living with chronic illnesses are going OK.
At the time she was recovering from a manic episode.
"We wondered what was out there in the evidence, and what could we pick out that might help us understand what was coming down the track," Dr Brown says.While it was still very early days in the pandemic, evidence from a handful of papers from other viral diseases, including SARS and MERS, and studies from the unfolding situation in Asia suggested coronavirus might actually lead to an increase in people experiencing psychosis.
While the numbers are hard to pin down, months down the track there is a sense that there has been a rise in the number of people accessing mental health services. "We have had an interesting cohort of people who've come to us for the first time during COVID," Ms Pardy says.But, she says, we won't truly see the fallout of COVID on mental illness until next year.Isolation, disrupted routines, and lack of access to care are some of the themes emerging.
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