“Why have anxiety and overwhelm increased as COVID fears have dropped? The pandemic has scarred us deeply over the last two years, and those wounds will take time to heal.”
Two years ago today, the World Health Organization formally characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic. Inside a week, workplaces, schools, places of worship, and most unessential stores had shuttered; we were all thrown into psychological vertigo. Then, on April 5, 2020, ADDitude fielded itsIn those early, uncertain, highly disruptive weeks of the pandemic, 95% of our 3,561 survey respondents reported “significant life upheaval.
“I am now addicted to screens; this was never the case before,” wrote a teacher with ADHD, anxiety, and depression in California. “I don’t paint, write, or draw now, even though I had done so for 45 years before the pandemic. This is so sad. I also feel incapable of being ‘normal’ in any social situation even with friends.”comorbid condition
For most adults, though, the lowest moments of the last year were not sparked by job loss or even sickness , but rather by strained relationships and equally strained mental health.was a common fuel — fanning the flames of discontent and making a bad situation worse. A staggering 90 survey respondents reported experiencing suicidal thoughts or responding to a child’s suicidal thoughts or behaviors at some point during the pandemic.
“Virtual learning set him back so much; it did more harm than good,” wrote the mother of a 3rd-grade student with ADHD. “I had a very hard time teaching him myself. He basically lost nearly two years of school. It has had a very bad impact on his academics, and it is so sad to see how much he now struggles in the classroom.”
Further impeding access to services is the fact that ADHD diagnoses appear to have risen significantly during the pandemic. Roughly 35% of survey respondents say their child was diagnosed with ADHD in the last two years, and nearly 23% report their child was diagnosed with a co-existing condition such as a learning difference or anxiety.
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