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Over 80% Of Americans Have Had at Least One Symptom of Depression during Lockdowns

by Michael Curzon
18 May 2021 5:15 PM

More than eight in 10 Americans have reported at least one symptom of depression during lockdowns, according to the results of a new survey conducted by YouGov and commissioned by Field Trip. Here are the key findings:

Close to half of Americans reported symptoms of mild or more severe depression according to validated depression metrics. Interestingly, even though these measures indicate a nation suffering with mental health challenges, 76% of respondents self-identified their mental health as “good” or better, suggesting a disconnect with one’s self-perceived state of mind and objective measures of mental health…

Women are more likely than men to indicate negative mental states (with 24% describing their current mental health as either poor or fair, compared to 18% of men)…

Younger Americans are also more likely to rate their mental health as poor or fair…

The negative feelings Americans are feeling are so severe that in the two weeks prior to this survey alone, nearly one in four Americans (24%) indicated that they have felt that they would be better off dead or thought of injuring themselves. 

The MailOnline has more on how Americans have tried to cope with their negative emotions over the past 12 months.

Americans reported drinking more alcohol, taking more drugs, watching more porn and overeating more frequently amid the pandemic compared to before Covid…

Every day for more than a year, Americans have either been stuck at home, watching global Covid cases and deaths climb from the hundreds to the thousands, from the thousands to the millions, or have been working jobs on the front lines with little diversion or social contact. 

And as infection and death rates rose, so did rates of depression, anxiety and mental illness…

Many [of the survey’s respondents] were trying to cope on their own, using mechanisms that could do more harm than good. 

One in five people said they were drinking to help them cope, with 37% saying the amount of alcohol they consumed had increased since the start of the pandemic. 

Unsurprisingly, with more time spent at home, and fewer activities to do, a quarter of respondents said that they’d been overeating. 

Women were more likely to use food to cope…

Men found themselves overusing another coping mechanism: porn. 

17% of men said they had been using porn to deal with negative feelings amid the pandemic, and 34% said they were watching more porn than they had pre-pandemic. 

Opioid use was up, too. One and 10 young adults (between 25 and 34) said they had turned to the addictive painkillers to help them cope, and 20% of those said they were using the drugs more often…

While many people were already getting help for, or planning to get help for their depression and mental health issues amid the pandemic, the survey suggests that there will be months, if not years, of mental health fallout from the pandemic ahead. 

The MailOnline report is worth reading in full.

Tags: AmericaDepressionMental Health

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago

“And as infection and death rates rose, so did rates of depression, anxiety and mental illness…”
Really? Nothing to do with the suppression of liberties and muzzle wearing then?

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Of course, as Governments would say ‘Nothing to see here, move on’ . Bastards, everyone of them.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Of course – death rates etc. didn’t actually rise in any meaningful, unusual sense (except for brief periods). People were told that they did.

This is a symptom of the induced mental illness, then reinforced by sociopathic conditioning.

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Double whammy, rising numbers of profitable psychiatric drug prescriptions

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

How the ignorance and fear works

True Story

Conversation in the village this afternoon

Person A ‘I’ve had both of my jabs’

Person B ‘And me’

Me ‘And me’ (I haven’t, I just can’t be bothered arguing with morons)

Person A ‘Did you see all those who caught the Indian because they didn’t get vaccinated’

Me ‘ All the people who caught the Indian had not been vaccinated?’

Person A ‘Yes’

Me ‘ Where does it say that?’

Person A ‘On the BBC’

Person B ‘Serves the selfish bastards right’

Person A ‘Yeah serves the selfish bastards right’

You cannot educate pork, but you can cure it

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

😂😂 Love it

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

You should argue though.
I either say: I’ve had Covid. I’m already immune. I don’t need to,
Which comes as a great shock to them. If they argue, I offer to email them the research,
Or if feeling cross: “I’d rather self immolate in Parliament Square than have jabs which have absolutely unknown long term effects.”
That comes as a surprise to them too.

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QuickDrawMcGraw
QuickDrawMcGraw
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

It’s quite worrying that many people have been brainwashed to this extent!

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

The Pangolins seem to be getting an easy ride at the moment

When is it their turn for re vilification

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Nah – they are too cute! I even have a pic on my desktop showing one with its baby (which rides on its mother’s tail gripping the side ridges). I, at least, forgive it its sins!

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago

So?!
That’s the main part of the plan: reduce the average life expectancy of the plebs.
Every single NPI, non PI (HCQ&co) and PI (gene therapies) solely has that effect and serves that purpose.
Why and Cui Bono?
Governments, big pharma and the financial industry.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
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And Bill Gates, aka the great depopulator.

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago

MUST READ. Change by CDC to record Vaccinated and Non-Vaccinated differently.
Clear attempt at differentiation by PCR test.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/

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Crystal Decanter
Crystal Decanter
4 years ago

Multi pronged attack

Care homes – clear out the elderly
Injections – both slow and fast kills and fertility issues
Lockdowns – suicides of the young
NHS reduction -limited care for the sick

Looks like the Georgia Guidestones were about right

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