There is a research model going around that suggests as many as 150,000 additional people could die from mental health-related outcomes of COVID-19. I could...
between the way insurance covers mental-health/substance-use disorders and other medical conditions is ongoing.
In my practice, I often have to get prior authorization for coverage of the first line or generic medications I believe would best help my mental-health patients. In many cases, “physical” problems are treated very differently by insurance companies. For example, if a patient has shortness of breath, it is unlikely they would need prior authorization to get a CT scan to rule out that they have a pulmonary embolism or blood clot.
This change is now visible on social media. Typically, social media can cause depression in young adults due to what those in the field sometimes refer to as “.” In my patients, this manifests as feeling like no one else is stressed or sad or struggling in college because they look happy and appear to be having a lot of fun on social media; by comparison, my sad and stressed patient feels like “something must be wrong with me.
The coronavirus crisis has made clear just how inextricable mental health is from physical health. You cannot talk about a lack of personal protective equipment without talking about the mental health repercussions, and you cannot talk about patients who are dying of COVID-19 without talking about grief. You also cannot talk about unemployment or social isolation without talking about anxiety and depression.
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