Deaths are piling up exponentially throughout the globe. Most of the country is on lockdown. And many of us are experiencing extreme claustrophobia and high anxiety.
But a cohort of Americans with mental illnesses are doin’ just fine. “I find that many people with chronic anxiety or depression are faring pretty well during this pandemic,” Dr.
Eric Schieber, a psychiatrist and addiction specialist who sees patients in Chicago, told me. “They have known mental suffering and have built a kind of resistance to it.” My sentiments exactly.
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