A story reporting on the tremendous mental health toll the pandemic has taken on the population as a whole and specifically on mental health care workers quotes
Michael R. Cummings, MD, assistant professor of clinical
psychiatry, who said: “The kind of informal collaboration and support that you get from chatting with peers and colleagues gets lost when you’re working from a computer screen. There’s less formal support, but there’s less informal support as well, and I think that's also why, for a lot of young people, rates of depression and anxiety are higher in the community. There’s less time to decompress in ways that we would have in the past.”