Futurity October 11, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic did not affect everyone’s mental health in the same way, a new study shows.
At the height of the pandemic, the media and some mental health professionals began to speculate about the ways lockdown, isolation, and worry about the disease would worsen people’s mental health. But researchers found not everyone took the same hit.
“As much as we found evidence of symptom increase across different kinds of samples and different symptoms, we also found a lot of evidence of resilience,” says lead author Mary Blendermann, a psychology PhD student working under the supervision of Lauren Hallion, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Early reports during the pandemic suggested ballooning mental health diagnoses, Blendermann notes,...
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