The Impact of the Pandemic on Mental Health and Grief

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This chapter discusses the impact of the pandemic on mental health and grief, highlighting the common issues experienced by individuals such as spiritual struggles, trauma, depression, and anxiety. It emphasizes the use of drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms and acknowledges the unknown long-term effects of these mental health conditions. The chapter also explores the high levels of impairment experienced by people grieving during the pandemic and the challenges they face in fulfilling their responsibilities.

Grief is deeply painful but it's something the majority of us …eventually … find ways to live with.

But research is starting to emerge on how the pandemic may have changed the way we grieve - making the experience more intense, more debilitating.

As places like Australia and the US move on from the harshest restrictions of the last two years… is how we grieve returning to baseline? Or is it still too early to know? On All in the Mind this week, how the COVID pandemic has changed the nature of grief.