The pandemic has created a convergence of suicide risk factors that need a public health response.
“The isolation that comes from the mitigation measures of the #coronavirus only worsens some of the stress that we’re already dealing with,” says Paul Nestadt, assistant professor in the @Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Mental Health.
Read more: https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2020/covid-19-and-suicide-crisis-within-crisis
If you or someone you know needs help, dial 988 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, or visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org