A Little Faith Can Be Contagious

Abstract

The institutional duct tape and safety pins used to protect those suffering from mental illness was already struggling before 2020, and only when society finally emerges from the depths of COVID-19 will the pandemic’s actual impact on mental health begin to reveal itself. As the number of COVID-19 cases rise and fall in the United States, however, an impending mental health debacle has started to unfold. How well an already flailing system can accommodate an entire generation of mental health patients devolving in new and existing ways at alarming rates may ultimately define modern day society for decades to come.