431 - Mental Health Check-In With Clinical Psychologist Dr. Laura Murray: 2 Years Into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
What do we know at this point about the potential for long term effects on mental health from the pandemic? How can we approach socializing and other activities we may have gotten used to NOT doing? How do we navigate going back to an office? Kids have had so much taken away during the pandemic, will this change them forever?
Clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Murray returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about these and more COVID-19 mental health questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhut.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.1 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Johns Hopkins psychologist |
| 0:47.5 | Laura Murray returns to the podcast to talk COVID-19 mental health with Stephanie Desmond. |
| 0:53.4 | As we come up on two years of the pandemic, |
| 0:55.8 | they discuss the lasting impacts of the behavior changes we have made to protect ourselves. |
| 1:00.4 | Let's listen. Laura Murray, thanks so much for returning to the program. It's great to be here again |
| 1:05.5 | with you, Stephanie. So you are our mental health go-to expert when it comes to COVID. |
| 1:13.3 | And here we are just about two years into this pandemic. |
| 1:18.5 | And first of all, I can't believe we're still talking about this pandemic. |
| 1:21.5 | I can't believe this pandemic is still going strong. |
| 1:25.0 | Right. |
| 1:25.5 | But I want to talk about sort of this long-term effects that this could have on our mental health. I mean, there are people out there who are saying, well, I'm done with COVID and they're behaving accordingly. That's not necessarily the best answer immunologically. Like there's so there's a lot of, I think there's a lot of people who don't really, they're sort of caught in this limbo. |
| 1:45.0 | What are you hearing? |
| 1:47.0 | Gosh, Stephanie, same thing. |
| 1:50.2 | Lots of people on the spectrum of saying, I'm done with it. |
| 1:51.6 | There's going to be no more masks. |
| 1:59.1 | I'm not staying indoors anymore and really going about their life, feeling like that's the best thing for their mental health and their sanity. |
| 2:02.0 | And that runs the gamut all the way right up to the other side of people saying COVID's still really significant and I'm still |
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