017 - Mental Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How to Cope in a Crisis

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

For many, COVID-19 has revealed an anxiety-ridden world of unknowns. Protecting our mental health is just as important as protecting our physical health in this pandemic. But how can we find comfort if we're inundated with scary messages and physically cut off from people we love? Dr. Monica Schoch-Spana of the Center for Health Security talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about caring for ourselves and for vulnerable populations like frontline healthcare providers, friends and neighbors in quarantine, and those with underlying health conditions like anxiety or depression.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast
0:41.2	episodes.
0:43.0	Today, I'm talking to Monica Scotch Spana, a medical
0:47.2	anthropologist and a senior scholar with the Center for Health
0:49.9	Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:53.9	We spoke about the mental health impacts of the coronavirus epidemic and what can be done
0:58.9	to address them.
1:00.5	Let's listen.
1:01.9	Dr. Shaksvana, thank you so much for joining me.
1:04.4	I know you've been looking into the mental health dimensions of the COVID pandemic.
1:08.0	Can you tell me what you're finding and what you're concerned about?
1:17.2	Right now, we're focusing a lot on viral transmission and interrupting it, but we also need to pay attention to the psychosocial dimensions. I think it's helpful for people to think about
1:22.9	the mental health impacts of the pandemic in two ways.
1:28.3	There's a diffuse distress that we're all feeling.
1:32.8	But then there are special groups of us that have unique stresses being placed on us at this time.
1:39.3	Let's talk first about the diffuse stress.
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