As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.
Tag: Anxiety and Stress
Shanghai Wrestles With Psychological Scars From Lockdown
The lockdown fueled anxiety, fear and depression among the city’s residents. Experts have warned that the mental health impact of the confinement will be long-lasting.
Declaring Curry and Samosas Enemy No. 1 to Whip the Police Into Shape
The police chief in an Indian island territory had a theory: If the boss was watching his officers’ weight, they would too.
Teens in Distress Are Swamping Pediatricians
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctor’s office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.
War in Ukraine Has Left Eastern Europe Sleepless
Mental health professionals across the region say they have seen an increase in patients with intense anxiety. Some are asking for more sleeping pills, and many are making escape plans.
Inside a Maternity Hospital in Ukraine as War Grinds On
As artillery shells fall, pregnant women are delivering prematurely, being shuttled in and out of bomb shelters or having babies in basements without even a midwife to help. Tens of thousands more are displaced.
Pandemic Fears Give Way to a Rush for Bomb Shelters
Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, European anxiety has shifted from Covid to nuclear annihilation. Bunkers, survival guides and iodine pills are flying off the shelves.
Pandemic Fears Give Way to a Rush for Bomb Shelters
Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, European anxiety has shifted from Covid to nuclear annihilation. Bunkers, survival guides and iodine pills are flying off the shelves.
U.K. System Strained as Health Care Workers Get Covid Themselves
Hospitals, clinics and ambulance services say infections are winnowing their staffs, straining a system already taxed by nearly two years of dealing with the pandemic.
Across the World, Covid Anxiety and Depression Take Hold
It is still unclear how much of a threat the fast-spreading Omicron variant poses, but fear and a sudden revival of restrictions have added to an epidemic of loneliness.