Despondency
New CSO data.
Did not prevent depression
It has now been reported that Minister Stephen Donnelly will meet with leading medical experts who repeatedly warned that Irish children might be harmed by undergoing treatment at the Tavistock clinic in Britain. It is outrageous that it has taken a scandal of this proportion to get a Minister for Health to listen to doctors […]
Sent home because wasn’t ‘severe’ enough
Antidepressant use rising in Ireland
Lockdown’s devastating effects
New data from 34 countries including Ireland, illustrates that covid restrictions accelerated a global decline in mental health among young people. The latest data from the Mental Health Million Project reveals that nearly half of young adults surveyed experienced mental health symptoms during the pandemic’s second year. These young people took a ‘mental health quotient’ […]
TikTok etc a factor?
Our fascination with, and enslavement to, constantly new things is unthinking and possibly harmful.
I spoke with the G.M. of the facility where I attend, and he said to me that for every 1 suicide I had heard of, 3 more have died that you didn’t.
Put figures like these together with the impact of shuttering various health screening services for months at a time, and there is a reasonable case to be made that lockdown may have cost – or at minimum, ruined – many more lives than it saved.