238 - New Year, Same Problems? Mental Health Q&A with Laura Murray

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

2021, so far, looks a lot like 2020 in terms of pandemic fatigue. What are signs of burnout and mental exhaustion? What can we do about anger? How can we "just hang on" until the pandemic is under better control? How can we deal with the stigma and shame around getting sick with COVID?

Clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Murray returns to the podcast to talk through these and more questions with Stephanie Desmon.

KEYWORDS: community mental health; stress management

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.3	I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
0:19.6	Our goal is to bring scientific evidence
0:22.4	and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists,
0:27.8	community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas
0:34.4	or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question
0:38.8	at jhhhu.edu.
0:41.1	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:47.1	Next week is Vaccine Week on the podcast.
0:49.4	Co-host Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmond will be bringing great interviews to our listeners,
0:54.9	including the latest on the science of vaccines, how distribution is going, why some people
1:00.2	are hesitant to be vaccinated, and critical ethical questions. You won't want to miss it.
1:05.9	Today, Stephanie Desmond catches up with our mental health expert, Dr. Laura Murray.
1:10.6	They talk about how to face
1:11.8	the stressors that the new year has already brought and how to best push through what we hope
1:16.3	will be the final stretch of the COVID pandemic. Let's listen. Laura Murray, thanks so much for joining me.
1:22.9	Great to be back with you, Stephanie. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. I sort of wanted to start there.
1:29.6	Oh, no. So, you know, I think that when the new year comes, especially after a year that was as
1:35.0	horrible as 2020, part of us has this sort of this whole wishful thinking that, you know,
1:40.8	2021 is going to be great. Now, of course, we all woke up and it has certainly not been
1:46.8	great in terms of the vaccine and other elements. So how are we going to push through?
1:54.7	It's definitely a question everyone's asking. And I think with this, talking about pandemic burnout or just the mental fatigue
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