{"id":106998,"date":"2020-05-13T01:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/op-ed-were-in-the-middle-of-a-mental-health-crisis-many-were-struggling-before-the-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-05-13T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T08:02:22","slug":"op-ed-were-in-the-middle-of-a-mental-health-crisis-many-were-struggling-before-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/op-ed-were-in-the-middle-of-a-mental-health-crisis-many-were-struggling-before-the-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: We\u2019re in the middle of a mental-health crisis. Many were struggling before the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/op-ed-were-in-the-middle-of-a-mental-health-crisis-many-were-struggling-before-the-pandemic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others are being hit hard by the impact of quarantine \u2014 feeling overwhelmed while trying to balance work with childcare, being stuck at home with an abusive partner or parent, or being alone for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>Since it\u2019s Mental Health Awareness Month, here are some tips to help you cope with the crisis:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>More from Invest in You:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/05\/06\/how-young-adults-try-to-navigate-through-the-coronavirus-crisis.html\">Young adults confront fears, stress as they navigate pandemic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/05\/06\/how-covid-19-causes-people-to-overeat-stock-up-cook-differently.html\">Over-eating, self-medicating lead to skyrocketing grocery bills<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/05\/04\/how-to-help-americans-during-the-coronavirus-without-busting-the-bank.html\">How to help out others without breaking your own bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that mental illness is normal.<\/p>\n<p>To that point, many people were struggling to keep it together before the crisis. Some had never experienced a mental-health challenge before and are now suffering from anxiety and depression. Some are struggling to adjust to the direct health and economic consequences of the virus \u2014 job loss, financial stress, illness and\/or the death of a loved one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Others are being hit hard by the impact of quarantine \u2014 feeling overwhelmed while trying to balance work with childcare, being stuck at home with an abusive partner or parent, or being alone for extended periods of time. Since it\u2019s Mental Health Awareness Month, here are some tips to help you cope with the crisis: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}