Covid lockdowns have created a “global crisis for mental health”, the World Health Organisation has admitted. MailOnline has more.
An international report by the UN agency found two years of restrictions have led to “significant mental health consequences”, especially for young people.
The WHO now estimates more than a billion people around the world are living with a mental health disorder as a result, a quarter more than pre-Covid. It said there had been an even bigger rise among children, “potentially reflecting the deep impact of school closures”.
Curbs imposed to control Covid led to feelings of “social isolation, disconnectedness and uncertainty about the future”, the report added.
The admission comes despite the WHO hailing China’s lockdowns at the start of the pandemic and warning that lifting measures too early in Britain may cause a “deadly resurgence” in 2020.
Schools were closed nationally at least twice over the course of the pandemic, with students also forced to learn from home because of individual closures.
More than 100 countries also shut down schools during the peak of the first wave.
The WHO World Mental Health Report was published on June 16th by the WHO’s mental health and substance division. It was designed to improve mental health across the world, looking at all the latest data available with case studies from people living with conditions.
It said more than one billion people are now living with a mental health condition, after increasing by more than 25% dung the first year of the pandemic. The most common types include anxiety, depression and developmental disorders like autism.
But children were worst affected by restrictions, officials said, with rates of bullying and abuse at home increasing and a lack of social interaction causing isolation during school closures.
The report said: “Restrictions imposed during the Covid pandemic for example had significant mental health consequences for many, including stress, anxiety or depression stemming from social isolation, disconnectedness and uncertainty about the future.”
It added: “Globally there was also a greater change in prevalence among younger age groups than older ones, potentially reflecting the deep impact of school closures and social restrictions on youth mental health. For some children and adolescents, being made to stay at home is likely to have increased the risk of family stress or abuse, which are known risk factors for mental health problems.”
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Exactly as predicted by Lockdown Sceptics in March 2020 – those crazy, tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist anti-vaxx flat-earth nutjobs.
Maybe they shouldn’t have flipping pushed for them then.
Just a thought.
BINGO
Does anyone (on here) really believe the WHO give a toss about the mental health of children in the developed world?
When I hear the likes of the WHO talking about the harms of lockdowns, what I’m really hearing is the ground work being laid for their scheme to respond quickly to future “pandemic” threats, as a solution to avoiding lockdowns. i.e. the immediate production and deployment of jabs, aka Bill Gates’ vision of the future.
Immediate? Coo, I wonder how many that’ll kill…
I should have thought that the majority of people, of whatever age, suffered varying degrees of mental anguish during this global social experiment of using medieval superstition to combat a viral illness in the 21st century.
What must it have been like for adults living alone? Many people cannot bear being alone for long periods of time. Think in particular of those countries with strict incarceration measures, like Spain, Italy, Peru. The worst lockdowns were often in countries where social contact is a major part of life. The reason we probably don’t hear more about how the elderly were affected is because a lot of them died as a result of the lockdowns before they could be surveyed. Others will have been so cognitively impaired from lack of contact and the vaxx that they would be unable to respond. We often hear tales of abuse in care homes, surely this too must have increased when family and friends were denied access and could not look out for their loved ones?
What of the mental health of people whose relationships broke down, who lost their business, their income, their homes?
Absolutely right to point out that the young paid the highest price, but by focusing on the young we are leaving the road open for applying measures to just those over 50 or 60. In NL they are planning the next poke of poison in the autumn to be aimed at those 60 and older. It has been ‘voluntary’ in NL, but what if they decided to commit the outright discrimination and breach of human rights that Italy and I believe France too already did, i.e. restricting the rights of people over 50/60, excluding them from society unless they got their 3rd dose of poison. There was no outrage over this blatant discrimination and I cannot understand why. Where are the real doctors? How can they possibly support this? Where are the human rights lawyers, the courts? The fundamental rights and freedoms that made the West a great place to live were hard fought and won and the people with the biggest gobs about these rights have been the most silent throughout this ridiculous episode. Shame on them.
I’ve been reading this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34921573-lost-connections
Lost Connections.
It’s a bit anthropological.
One of the things it mentions it that Loneliness is one of the absolute WORST stressors / causes of bad health / shortened life etc far above for instance Obesity. This has been known for decades ( couple of studies done in the 70’s )
Speaking as one of those adults who lives alone & was isolated – it was absolutely bloody awful! If I didn’t have my dog I know I wouldn’t be here now.
The judiciary has been captured, the lawyers are too scared of losing their huge salaries or a partnership to speak up & the human rights brigade only speak up for the right kind of human rights…..
Yes, it can be horrible. I work from home and while living abroad over the years have had many days in a row without seeing anyone unless I left the house. If you are experiencing difficulties (perhaps a falling out with someone, a break-up, or in this case a global panic and loss of all rational thought) it can get really dark. Dogs are absolutely the best!!
I was really ill with the wild original version of the bioweapon covid toxin, nearly killed me via respiratory difficulties. He absolutely is the best! Wouldn’t let me close my bedroom door one night – lay across the threshold & wouldn’t move. He woke me up, I could hardly breathe. He now sleeps on the bed! As I was really ill & nobody was prepared to break the “rules” at that time, I was incredibly isolated & struggling. Dogs are absolutely the best
Indeed, IMHO even the “focused protection” crowd ended up making too many concessions to the lockdown zealots in that regard. They also unfortunately disregarded early treatment and prophylaxis as well, making them (inadvertent) kissing cousins to the lockdown zealots.
What must it have been like for adults living alone? Many people cannot bear being alone for long periods of time.
Pretty awful. Due to my employer being on a different continent than me, I’m always working from home. I’m probably autistic (no intent to try to get this diagnosed), hence, I don’t really have much social contact. I usually just go to a pub, have a couple of beers and sometimes, briefly talk to someone I’ve known for long enough and like (at least a couple of months of slient communication/ observation) beyond what’s necessary at the counter. My usual work times (aligned with office hours in Texas) are 3pm – 11pm UK time. Minus a brief shopping trip among masked, socially-distanced and disinfected zombies, I spent the complete lockdown and curfew period either home alone working (household and paid work) or with kilometer-long solitary walks in the middle of the night. I’ve more than once felt as if I was Lovecraft’s outsider, undead and eternally damned to keep away from the bright and happy world existing somewhere above. And I was lucky in this respect: Had I been living in Germany, the nightly walks had also been prohibited (general curfew tailored to the work times of the 9-5 crowd). Probably wouldn’t have cared for that, though.
Considering that I’m absolutely not a social person, this was certainly still a lot easier for me than for many other people more used to human contact.
Was working at a friend’s house he has a two year old daughter. She was really nervous around me and my work colleague and didn’t want to come near us, screamed if we got within 5m. He just shrugged it off and said ‘lockdown baby’. I know a two year old can behave like this but the casual way in which he said it disturbed me as if it was a an excuse. Lovely couple and lovely child but it does make you wonder about her future development.
Does this mean that pre-covid, 4 billion people in the world had a mental health disorder and now there are 5 billion? (or is it a billion in total? Should I join the SAGE school of math?)
If so, this means that there are only 2 billion left that would be considered “sane”. If this trend continues, computer models will predict that in 2 years time, around 14 billion people will have a mental illness (I know there are not 14 billion people on earth, but if we all develop split personality disorder, then there will be)
If the majority of people have a disorder, does that mean that the remaining 2 billion are actually the ones that are “not normal”?
If you’re not mentally scarred after what has been done to you after the past two years, then there probably is something wrong with you.
Not scarred, more bloody furious.
So are they pleading guilty? Or trying to transfer it to others?
They’ll all say “ich bin nicht Schuld [I am not guilty]”, just like in Andorra.
I doubt if the (sadly far too many) children who were murdered by their abusive parents and their partners during the lockdowns are suffering from mental illnesses. Or those who starved to death.
The EVIL perpetrated against children by the WHO, Fauci, Gates and various Governments including our own, is unforgivable. At the very least, they should be charged with Child Abuse.