Psychological distress and Covid.

People who suffer from psychological distress were more likely to get Covid, due to the impact the psyche has on the immune system. Huffingtonpost reports on this.

This is no fluke. For more than 30 years, the medium- and long-term consequences of trauma related to social and environmental emergencies have been studied, demonstrating the negative consequences on mental and physical health and quality of life can last for years.

Research on psychological conditions offer impressive numbers: based on the combined work of 66 researchers, one out of three people suffer from deep psychological distress, a percentage that rises to 41% among Covid patients. One out of two people in quarantine has developed problems relating to anxiety and depression and among those under the age of 18, one out of three suffers from anxiety and depression.

The rate of malaise and psychological stress is increasingly widespread within society, and affects in general higher income countries and young people.

This is a structural problem that requires structural responses, from which it is clear that psychological care is not a luxury for a few but a right for all. Italy does not have psychological services calibrated to prevention and promotion, or support and therapy at an individual or collective level. It’s time to look at the problems in a new way and equip ourselves to improve them.

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