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The Bunker

Daily: The COVID mental health challenge

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The lockdown is impacting everyone differently but it’s hitting people with pre-existing mental health issues especially hard. Demand for help with depression and anxiety are up by 30% worldwide, and the impending once-in-a-century recession is likely to make it worse. Will Higham of the charity Rethink Mental Illness talks to Naomi Smith about the post-COVID crisis in mental wellbeing – and how it affects young people especially. Presented by Naomi Smith. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Script and assistant production by Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickenson. Logo and artwork by Mark Taylor. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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1:29.5

of giving the nation something else to listen to in the morning apart from thought for the day.

1:35.3

On today's edition, the current and forced lockdown is affecting all of us in pretty different

1:40.4

ways, but it's falling especially hard on those suffering from mental ill health.

1:46.8

For many of those sufferers, the situation is that they're at best stuck at home,

1:51.6

with family but without as much access to their usual support mechanisms

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