外刊01 How is COVID-19 affecting our mental health?_topic: who impressed-me most during the pandemic?s-CSDN博客

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一项新研究显示，由于新冠病毒的影响，超过四分之一的美国成年人现在符合严重心理困扰和疾病的诊断标准，比2018年的数据增加了约700%。同时，大约70%的美国人经历了中度到重度的心理压力，是2018年的三倍。研究指出，社会隔离、健康焦虑和经济问题共同导致了心理健康问题的激增。

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By now, the world is familiar with the physical threat of COVID-19. But the psychological impacts of the pandemic are only just beginning to come into focus. A new study from researchers at San Diego State University and Florida State University is helping to quantify how deeply the coronavirus is straining the mental health of Americans.

The study has not yet undergone peer review and formal publication, but its preliminary data are among the first to offer details on the scope of the country’s coronavirus-related psychological struggles.

The study is full of grave严峻的 findings. In April, more than 1 in 4 U.S. adults met the criteria that psychologists use to diagnose serious mental distress and illness. That represents a roughly 700% increase from data collected in 2018.

Meanwhile, roughly 70% of Americans experienced moderate to serve mental distress——triple the rate seen in 2018. While this surge in mental distress showed up across age and demographic groups, young adults and those with children experienced the most pronounced spikes 尖峰/猛增.

The size of the increase shouldn’t have come as a shock, says Jean Twenge, a co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. “In some ways, this is a perfect storm for mental-health issues,” she says. “We’re dealing with social isolation, anxiety around health, and economic problems.”

Researchers unaffiliated with Twenge’s study say that on top of the loss of jobs and the obvious health risks associated with COVID-19, the element of uncertainty is causing Americans a great deal of distress.

“People don’t know when we’re going to get back to normal life, and that is quite anxiety-provoking,” says Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry精神病学 and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced U.S. politicians and public-health officials into a lose-lose dilemma: both groups are now weighing the life-and-death risk of exposing people to the virus against the manifold hardships created by stay-at-home directives and business closures.

More and more, members of each group have discussed the psychological repercussions后果 associated with each scenario—including the specter恐怖的东西 of rising depression and suicide rates. This new study appears to substantiate those concerns.

While some might point to the psychological blowback as a reason to reopen the economy and lift restrictions, Twenge says that course of action is also fraught. ” Opening up too soon and then having to shut back down could also have very negative consequences from a mental-health perspective, such as a further increase in mental distress,” she says.

“If there’s a policy message here,” Twenge adds, “it’s that people are suffering and we need to put resources into mental-health treatment.”