Evening Edition: The Mental Health Effects Of The Pandemic

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic is going on two years of giving all of us more concerns to worry about and experts say that long term pressure causes high levels of stress. Besides the mental health effects, physical effects can manifest from that mental fatigue and frustration. FOX's Simon Owen speaks to Alastair Santhouse, a British psychiatrist and the author of 'Head First: How the Mind Heals The Body', about the pandemic's effects on our mental health and his take on how the brain can sometimes ease physical suffering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	This is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.5	Friday, December 24th, 2021. I'm Simon Owen. As yet another twist emerges in the story of COVID-19 in the shape of the Omicron variant, what might the
0:33.2	Omicron variant, what might the pandemic be doing to our minds?
0:37.7	What people don't tolerate at all in my experience is chronic uncertainty. You can't make a mental adjustment to it, you don't quite
0:46.2	know what it is that you're adjusting to, and I feel that that's one of the most sort of mentally
0:51.1	destructive kind of experiences for people to have.
0:54.0	This is the Fox News Run Down, Evening Edition.
0:57.0	It's another holiday season featuring a fair amount of uncertainty and anxiety.
1:06.5	COVID case numbers were already rising again in the United States and now there's a new twist in the shape of the highly contagious omicron
1:15.4	variant. After nearly two years on an emotional seashore, research suggests many
1:21.8	Americans feel worn out.
1:24.1	At the beginning of the pandemic, there was just a lack of cynicism.
1:28.1	People were nervous, but there was a sense that we were all in this together.
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