Mental Health & the Impact of This Pandemic:

The impact of this pandemic on our mental health can be seen already and on many levels. For some of us, this shows up in terms of different types of stress or frustrations. Others experience an intensifying of anxiety or depression, rage or avoidance. We, as mammals, require touch and yet never before have people social distanced or created the kinds of boundaries that we now see across the globe.

During week one of sheltering-in-place orders, I remember wondering about the impact of this pandemic on our mental health in terms of the potential for escalation of anxiety disorders, depression,