Amid the worldwide pandemic, Licensed Professional Counselor Lisa Jamison said depression and anxiety were already high but following the South Obenchain and\u00a0Almeda fires on Sept. 8,\u00a0suicidal ideation and self-harm have grown even higher.<\/p>\n
“Depression and anxiety are through the roof,” Jamison said. “The anxiety around everything that is going on has just increased. It’s just such a hard time.”<\/p>\n
Rates of depression in the U.S. have tripled since the onset of Covid-19, according to a fall Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network study \u2013 and this trend isn’t expected to subside anytime soon.<\/p>\n
Locally the combination of the wildfires and the strain of the coronavirus pandemic has increased the need for mental health treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amid the worldwide pandemic, Licensed Professional Counselor Lisa Jamison said depression and anxiety were already high but following the South Obenchain and\u00a0Almeda fires on Sept. 8,\u00a0suicidal ideation and self-harm have grown even higher. “Depression and anxiety are through the roof,” Jamison said. “The anxiety around everything that is going on has just increased. It’s just such a hard time.” Rates of depression in the U.S. have tripled since the onset of Covid-19, according to a fall Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network study \u2013 and this trend isn’t expected to subside anytime soon. Locally the combination of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n