Abstract
Preparing for COVID‐19's “psychological tsunami” calls for a national plan, says Seth D. Norrholm, Ph.D., scientific director of the Neuroscience Center for Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. In The Detroit News op‐ed, published Dec. 31, 2020, Norrholm wrote, “COVID‐19, with its associated adverse psychological consequences, presents clinicians and the public with a unique set of challenges.” Norrholm stresses the need for a coordinated, national plan to deal with “Psychological Long COVID,” which will include but not be limited to increases in: depression; fear‐, anxiety‐, trauma‐ and stressor‐related disorders; and substance (including alcohol) abuse. One of the steps the new administration can take to help head off the “‘psychological ‘tsunami’ is to create and staff task forces with multidisciplinary experts in medicine, mental health, social work and related fields to assess and treat COVID‐related psychological distress and poor mental health outcomes at the international, national, regional and local levels,” Norrholm wrote.
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