Pandemic Lockdowns Crushing American Mental Health

Mental health experts are making their voices heard about the debilitating effects of overzealous lockdowns.

The fake news and establishment media steered away from true facts in Democrat-run states that forcing everyday people to shutter their businesses, face economic uncertainty, and thrust them into isolation would have a devastating impact. As left-wing governors and media outlets continue to push for endless disruption, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide rates have spiked.

Research recently published in the medical journal JAMA points to increased heart complications in overwise healthy adults due to social isolation. A study of 1,914 heart patients concluded that the “psychological, social, and economic stress” caused by “imposed quarantine, lack of social interaction, strict physical distancing rules, and its economic consequences in people’s lives” has driven physical health complications.

“Emotional distancing is not healthy. The economic impact is not healthy,” cardiologist Dr. Ankur Kalra reportedly said. “We’ve seen that as an increase in non-coronavirus deaths, and our study says that stress cardiomyopathy has gone up because of the stress that the pandemic has created.”

Other reports indicate that quarantines and social distances have toppled the emotional wellness of those struggling with substance abuse. Data culled from the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP), which provides information on suspected overdoses in real-time, shows an initial 18-point spike following the first lockdown mandates. Once much of the country succumbed to stay-at-home orders, the overdose crisis skyrocketed by 62 percent.

“Detected overdose clusters have shifted from traditional centralized, urban locations to adjacent and surrounding suburban and rural areas; and the number of spike alerts and the duration of overdose spikes has increased nationally,” the ODMAP report called COVID-19 Impact on US National Overdose Crisis reportedly states.

The American Medical Association’s Advocacy Resource Center reports that opioid-related deaths increased in upwards of 35 states. Fatal drug overdoses are on pace to more than double in 2020 unless vulnerable citizens get the emotional care and restored freedom they deserve.

According to an article by Romeo Vitelli Ph.D., published in Psychology Today, suicide stood as the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. with a stunning 35-percent increase from 1999 to 2018. But a new report published in the Journal of American Medical Association — Suicide Mortality and Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Perfect Storm? — concludes that the wide-reaching impacts of the pandemic and government mandates delivered a crushing blow.

The report highlights the fact that economic insecurity, lockdowns, and social distancing have prompted a second pandemic — one laced with mental health implications. The research study uses data that ties the impact of the following drivers to depression, substance abuse, and suicide.

  • Economic Stress
  • Social Isolation
  • Loss of Religious Connection
  • Loss of Community Connection
  • Difficulty Gaining Access to Mental Health Resources

These are precisely the negative effects that lockdown orders handed many of our vulnerable community members. Before government officials dictated that people suffer through isolation and shutter businesses, the U.S. suicide rate was 14.2 per 100,000 people. Since the lockdowns, it has surged. The virus has a U.S. death rate of only 4.2 per 100,000. It appears the so-called “cure” is more deadly than the disease.


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9 responses to “Pandemic Lockdowns Crushing American Mental Health”

  1. A more interesting way to provide the conclusion would be to say that over the period of xxx months the virus killed yyy people, but the increase in suicides attributed to the lock down resulted in zzz additional deaths. I believe that the numbers presented in this fashion would be easier to understand and recall than the per 100,000 view.

    Just a thought.

  2. As you read the ever-worsening news around C-19, please be aware that this virus, its “rollout,” the governmental “response” to it (including Draconian measures sure to exact their exact toll), and the coming “solution,” (and boy, is it a solution! One “cooked up” by the likes of Bill Gates & Co.) are all PLANNED EVENTS WITH PREDETERMINED RESULTS! This entire debacle is part of a plan. And the public masses are acting exactly as predicted, expected, and “directed.”

  3. If this is all planned out before hand. What is the end game? And why? Who’s plan is it? And really WTF?

    • YOUR COMMENTS ARE ERY THOUGHTFUL. RECENTLY I READ THAT A POLL
      DETERMINED THAT 60% OF AMERICANS ARE AGAINST OPENING THE
      SCHOOLS UNTIL THE PANDEMIC IS OVER. 33% ARE ALL FOR SENDING
      CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL. I WOULD GUESS THAT 33% DO NOT HAVE
      CHILDREN. THEY ARE PROBABLY THE ONES WHO MAY HAVE ABORTED
      ANY POSSIBLE CHILDREN. UNIONS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO
      INTERFERE IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF AMERICANS.
      THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. YOU ARE A WISE PERSON.
      GOD BLESS YOU
      GERALDINE NATHAN

  4. I agree, and the Media has been a willing participant be ignoring good news, possible mediation treatments, life-saving protocols and and current developments unless they were gloomy. Next, et’s cover for horrible decisions by Democrat Governors, distort facts around Republican Governors and present information in its gloomiest light. Case in point. Most of Europe has their children back in school, some never were out. Their mortality rate at the schools is able to be counted on one hand. We are dithering because of Unions. Simple measure. Unions have no children or parents in their membership. The great majority of Americans, when presented with the facts, agree to send the kids back. Some teachers who are in the target demographic should be held out. Replace them with young new teachers who just graduated from College, or olders who already have the anti-bodies. Suspend all Public Sector Union Activities and revoke their strike powers until the virus has run its course. This is a perfect time for an emergency declaration. It does not destroy the unions, but it eliminates their control temporarily. If they don’t show up, they can be replaced. Let’s face it, with the results we have been getting, maybe this is our opportunity to fix this issue.

  5. Last sentence in the essay is bogus. To come to any conclusion as to whether the cure is worse than the disease, the 4.2 death rate figure must be compared to the suicide rate increase since the pandemic, not the 14.2 suicide rate (if these figures are even accurate) that prevailed before covid.

  6. It was very easy make monkeys from humans by Marxists. But leaders of this terrorist forget that mobs will turn against every person on the top of any level of political steps on the end.

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