Stress, burnout, and uncertainty are all common experiences in the pandemic. But is it trauma? Experts are debating the term, but it's clear a mental health crisis is looming.
Experts are debating whether the term"trauma" applies to the pandemic, but it's clear a mental health crisis is looming. She had been on the list for a kidney transplant and, to her relief, there was now finally a donor. But that reassurance was quickly overshadowed by the looming threat of the novel coronavirus.
Hoggan works from home, rarely leaves the house, and when she does, it's incredibly stressful. Her husband and college-age daughter both wear masks at home and have to be extremely careful about who they see and what they do. "I think for a lot of people, the idea of having a mental health challenge is there's something inside of me that's wrong," he said."And I think the idea of trauma helps people to understand that, no, this is something that is happening to me and how I'm responding is a natural response."Generally speaking, trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event.
What Langstrom describes is a collective trauma, according to Roxane Cohen Silver of the University of California, Irvine. But the uptick in demand for mental health treatment was not necessarily a rise in pandemic-related trauma, said psychiatrist and neurologist Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. He has spent his career trying to figure out how people adapt to trauma.explores how the brain, mind and body process trauma. Eight years after it was first published, the book found itself onbestseller list for months, and it was one of the most-sold books on Amazon during the pandemic.
"That's really what I'm encouraging us to do — to really identify what is making us all feel like we're barely hanging on," he said.Trauma usually presents months, sometimes years after an event, says Tamar Rodney, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
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