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Chasing Life

Anxiety and Depression on the Rise

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic is taxing everyone’s mental health. But not all people are impacted equally. According to the CDC, young people and people of color are the most likely to report symptoms of anxiety and depression. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to a young woman and a psychiatrist about why this is happening and how to cope. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're all concerned with protecting our health and the face of the coronavirus pandemic,

0:07.9

but you know there's more to our well-being than just our physical health.

0:12.0

As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States sores, we've also seen anxiety

0:17.2

and depression go on the rise.

0:20.1

And recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that not all parts

0:24.8

of the population are suffering equally.

0:28.1

Younger people and people of color are the most likely to report symptoms of depression

0:33.4

and anxiety.

0:35.4

So today I wanted to get a better sense of why this pandemic is having such a negative

0:39.1

impact on the mental health of these groups.

0:42.8

So I reached out to people who are dealing with this first hand to find out how are they

0:47.2

coping really so many months into this?

0:50.6

And what can all of us do?

0:53.3

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

0:57.2

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:08.5

The end of March beginning of April, I stayed in my room.

1:13.0

I stayed in here.

1:15.4

My body just wasn't processing my new normal.

1:18.6

I was sad.

1:19.9

I just felt so terrible about everything that was going on.

1:24.4

Fesatia Harris had been living on campus at Georgia State University.

1:28.6

She's 22 and was just about to finish her last year before graduation.

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