{"id":131924,"date":"2021-12-07T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-next-global-pandemic-mental-health"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:42:58","slug":"the-next-global-pandemic-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-next-global-pandemic-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"The Next Global Pandemic: Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-global-pandemic-mental-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the next global health crisis is a mental health pandemic? It is here now.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gallup, anger, stress, worry and sadness have been on the rise globally for the past decade \u2014 long before the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 and all reached record highs in 2020.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>People die from COVID-19 \u2014 they also die from depression and anxiety disorders. The U.S. has seen spikes in deaths from suicide and \u201cdeaths of despair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Deaths of despair<\/em> \u2014 a new designation made prominent by Princeton economists Anne Case and Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton in their book of the same name \u2014 are suicides and deaths caused by fatal behaviors such as drug overdoses and liver failure from chronic alcohol consumption. They have particularly harmed working-class males in the American heartland and increased dramatically since the mid-1990s, from about 65,000 in 1995 to <strong>158,000<\/strong> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Think of deaths of despair as suicide in slow motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the next global health crisis is a mental health pandemic? It is here now. According to Gallup, anger, stress, worry and sadness have been on the rise globally for the past decade \u2014 long before the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 and all reached record highs in 2020. People die from COVID-19 \u2014 they also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131924","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\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}