The Link Between Unemployment, Depression and Suicide in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As the economy continues to shut down during COVID-19, people are growing more concerned about work and finances. Even if the virus is miraculously contained in the next few months, the economy will still be reeling from the damage of the lockdown.

As psychiatrists, we are concerned about the increases in mental illness from the lack of employment and a potential increase in suicides. In this episode, we begin to look at past studies on the links between economic disaster and the subsequent rates of depression and suicide, and what we might be able to do to help.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.
0:12.2	I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling
0:16.6	like an expert in what you do.
0:18.6	One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical
0:22.0	education right at the last minute.
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0:35.3	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:36.3	I am joined today with Lauren Joffrian.
0:40.8	She is a soon to be fourth year medical student going into psychiatry and we have been working
0:46.2	together looking through some literature on how in this season of high unemployment mental
0:55.2	health is going to be influenced.
0:57.5	Okay.
0:58.5	So in this episode, we will be going through the history of previous recessions, previous
1:04.2	times of high unemployment.
1:06.2	We'll be talking through some of the numbers, the data that supports the importance of
1:14.3	different things that can be done that can decrease the burden psychologically on people
1:20.4	who are unemployed.
1:22.6	And further, how those rates will be influencing the times that we're living in.
1:29.7	Okay.
1:30.7	So we know that depression is increased.
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