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With the corona epidemic largely behind us, the world can now take a closer look at the long-term impact on the body.
A new study claims that the corona virus did not necessarily harm our mental health. According to the study, carried out by researchers from McGill University in Canada and recently published in the British magazine The Guardian, there seems to be no significant increase in suicides or reports of mental illness. The study focused on adults, mainly in middle and high income countries.
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Despite the limitations of the quarantine and social distancing, the researchers claim that the epidemic and the measures used to contain it increased social cohesion around the “enemy” that the corona constituted.
“The story of the effects of the corona virus on mental health has become part of a general public narrative, but it is not necessarily research-based,” claims Bret Toombs, professor of psychiatry at McGill University. “The claims that the mental health of most people deteriorated significantly during the epidemic were mainly based on individual studies that examined a certain situation, in a certain place, at a certain time; but they usually did not include a long-term comparison.”
However, the Canadian researchers do acknowledge that women experienced worsening symptoms of anxiety, depression or other general symptoms related to mental health, but they do not attribute this to Corona itself but to the fact that, according to them, “women had to take care of their family members, at the same time as the great mental pressure they were under “. The researchers also claim that their findings are in line with another large study conducted on the rate of suicides during the epidemic, according to which there was no increase in these cases.
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