I don't think a rise in mental illness is entirely attributable to lockdowns. There are several ways this pandemic can affect mental state, such as:
- COVID infection, virus messing with your brain
- Disappointment from believing COVID is man made (regardless of whether true or not)
- Death of someone close, remember that 1.1 million people have died from COVID in the United States alone
- Disappointment that the lack of care for the vulnerable exposed a survival of the fittest nonchalance where some of the most able among us couldn't be bothered to breathe through an n95 to avoid a however negligible chance of someone dying
- COVID infection, virus messing with your brain
- Disappointment from believing COVID is man made (regardless of whether true or not)
- Death of someone close, remember that 1.1 million people have died from COVID in the United States alone
- Disappointment that the lack of care for the vulnerable exposed a survival of the fittest nonchalance where some of the most able among us couldn't be bothered to breathe through an n95 to avoid a however negligible chance of someone dying