Title: Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says - CBS News
Headings: Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says
Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says
Content: You don't have to learn another language. But you do have to give yourself permission to feel your emotions," Aoun said. " If you try to suppress your emotions or numb them with drugs or alcohol, it prevents you from processing your emotions and being able to move past them." Miller agreed. "You have to be comfortable talking about how you feel. We have to be able to talk about the hard stuff," he said. " Ask family or friends, 'Are you OK?' I don't know anyone who hasn't had some sort of change because of this, so if the answer is always that everything is fine, maybe it's not." The pandemic is giving society an opportunity to reflect on what works and what doesn't. Miller hopes one result will be a redesigned mental health care system.