The Evidence: Mental health and Covid 19

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🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Now that more than half the population of the world has been living for a time in lockdown, Claudia Hammond and her panel of psychologists and psychiatrists answer the audience’s questions on the impact of the pandemic on our mental health. Dr George Hu, clinical psychologist & Section Chief of Mental Health at Shanghai United Family Pudong Hospital, tells us what he’s seen in China, as it comes out of lockdown. Professor Vikram Patel gives us a picture of mental health in India, which went very suddenly into lockdown. Manuela Baretto, Professor of Psychology at Exeter University, explains what research tells us about how isolation and loneliness affects us. Dr Jo Daniels, a psychology at the University of Bath in the UK, talks about who is susceptible to long term health anxiety following the pandemic. And Professor Sir Simon Wessley, psychiatrist and Director of the Kings Centre for Military Research in London, answers questions on whether we can learn about the likely psychological consequences from previous pandemics and other global upheavals. The Evidence is produced in association with Wellcome Collection. Producer: Caroline Steel Editor: Deborah Cohen

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.1	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know, I also know that comedy is really
0:24.3	subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from
0:29.8	satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about.
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0:40.0	Hello and welcome to the evidence from the BBC World Service. I'm Claudia
0:44.7	Hammond and every two weeks we're spending almost an hour discussing the best
0:48.6	evidence we have on the new coronavirus and its impact on the world. This show is produced in
0:54.0	collaboration with Welcome Collection and at this time of great uncertainty we're
0:58.6	here to get to the facts as we know them. It's a chance for us to look in depth at a virus that's forcing so many of us to change
1:05.8	the way we live and work and interact with friends and family. Some fear that the virus not only
1:11.0	constitutes a medical crisis but in time could lead to a
1:14.9	mental health crisis too. But is this inevitable? In the past we've sat in front of
1:19.7	audiences in South Africa, Finland and Vietnam among other places.
1:23.0	But now, of course, for safety, the members of our expert panel are in their homes or offices
1:28.2	wherever they live in the world.
1:29.8	But we're still putting your questions to them which you've been sending us all week and
1:33.7	thank you so much for those. Our panel of psychologists and psychiatrists are here
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