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Stress levels are at their peaks as the coronavirus
shutdowns, job losses and uncertainty for the future continue for people
through late summer, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is
reporting that 40.9% of adults say they now have an “adverse mental or
behavioral condition.”
Young adults are particularly affected, with 18- to
24-year-olds reporting the highest levels of anxiety and depression, at 62.9%.
Not only that, a fourth of them have seriously considered suicide.
“Their rates of having started or increased substance use to
cope with pandemic-related stress or emotions was way up there as well at 24.7
percent (it was equal or higher only among the essential workers and the unpaid
caregivers),” The New York Times added.
SOURCE: The
New York Times August 24, 2020