Finding Connection During the Pandemic
Hugh: It’s a crisis moment for so many struggling with serious depression, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. Our mental health system—particularly community clinics and peer-support organizations—has been overwhelmed by calls for help.Ann: Yeah. The pandemic has only intensified feelings of loneliness, lack of community and need for social connection. Hugh: This new wave of emotional distress, seems to me, is a perfectly reasonable human response to living our lives in an increasingly isolated and uncertain world. Good grief, is it any wonder that in year three of this pandemic—the enforced isolation, political paralysis, climate disaster, increased violence, and on and on—that we see