Tip of the iceberg of harm the insanely destructive Covid Response has caused.
My guess is for each old and frail life extended two younger lives where shortened. As well as the end of pensions, the looming depression, loss of small business and jobs, and the decline of the West Globally.
Peter Shaw
2 years ago
Very telling that the commentator has to remain anonymous. A doctor complaining about the epidemic in mental health among youngsters, would be pilloried and unable to work if identified. Further proof that the NHS is a cult, that permits no dissent or criticism.
Simon Denis
2 years ago
The mental health crisis has been intensified by Covid but not started. It has deeper roots. Without excavating the deepest, one might suggest that a society which goes in for endless self-blame; which stigmatises success and praises victimhood; which encourages morbidity and condemns resolve; which fills its children’s ears with angry, aggressive noise in the place of music and reduces dance to ritualised rutting; which regards unskilled dross as art and endlessly campaigns and hectors and shouts; which offers no community, no pride, no future and no hope is bound – utterly bound – to damage the minds of its young. Add drugs to the mix, not to mention the unreported epidemics of bullying in our so-called “schools” and it is a wonder the young survive at all. The left is a kind of social blood poisoning – and our whole society is septic.
And a society that tells children and young people that non-conformity to absurd ‘gender’ stereotypes, or an attraction to the same sex, mean that they are ‘transgender’, and should take opposite sex hormones and have bodily mutilations so that they can outwardly ‘fit’ with society’s expectations. It then tells anyone who objects to that, and has the courage to simply be themselves in their own body, that they are ‘transphobic’ and ostracises them.
Lesley van Reenen
2 years ago
The inevitability of what so many of us warned of and for which we were harangued and vilified. More is to follow.
John Tyler
2 years ago
A minimised range of self-reported symptoms gathered by remote survey is a very poor indication of the true extent of mental illness. MIND is, like most well-established charities, a business and has a financial purpose to presenting statistics that help their case for extra funding. Of course, their survey may reflect reality, but may equally be strongly biased for commercial gain.
All that the governmet will take from this is: “more profits for our friends in pharma …”
Claire D
2 years ago
We don’t yet know or fully understand the long term effects of SSRIs on the developing brains of children and adolescents. More research is needed before we can safely assert that no serious harm will be the result. Other therapies and strategies are preferable until we understand better what the consequences may be.
For me that is what is important about this news. In a national and global crisis such as this pandemic there are bound to be troubling psychological effects on some people, including children.
Last edited 2 years ago by Claire D
Matt B
2 years ago
Children went through a lot. Whether the stats are accurate or not, it would be surprising if the general trends were not seen
Tip of the iceberg of harm the insanely destructive Covid Response has caused.
My guess is for each old and frail life extended two younger lives where shortened. As well as the end of pensions, the looming depression, loss of small business and jobs, and the decline of the West Globally.
Very telling that the commentator has to remain anonymous. A doctor complaining about the epidemic in mental health among youngsters, would be pilloried and unable to work if identified. Further proof that the NHS is a cult, that permits no dissent or criticism.
The mental health crisis has been intensified by Covid but not started. It has deeper roots. Without excavating the deepest, one might suggest that a society which goes in for endless self-blame; which stigmatises success and praises victimhood; which encourages morbidity and condemns resolve; which fills its children’s ears with angry, aggressive noise in the place of music and reduces dance to ritualised rutting; which regards unskilled dross as art and endlessly campaigns and hectors and shouts; which offers no community, no pride, no future and no hope is bound – utterly bound – to damage the minds of its young. Add drugs to the mix, not to mention the unreported epidemics of bullying in our so-called “schools” and it is a wonder the young survive at all. The left is a kind of social blood poisoning – and our whole society is septic.
And a society that tells children and young people that non-conformity to absurd ‘gender’ stereotypes, or an attraction to the same sex, mean that they are ‘transgender’, and should take opposite sex hormones and have bodily mutilations so that they can outwardly ‘fit’ with society’s expectations. It then tells anyone who objects to that, and has the courage to simply be themselves in their own body, that they are ‘transphobic’ and ostracises them.
The inevitability of what so many of us warned of and for which we were harangued and vilified. More is to follow.
A minimised range of self-reported symptoms gathered by remote survey is a very poor indication of the true extent of mental illness. MIND is, like most well-established charities, a business and has a financial purpose to presenting statistics that help their case for extra funding. Of course, their survey may reflect reality, but may equally be strongly biased for commercial gain.
Look at the rising suicide rate.
All that the governmet will take from this is: “more profits for our friends in pharma …”
We don’t yet know or fully understand the long term effects of SSRIs on the developing brains of children and adolescents. More research is needed before we can safely assert that no serious harm will be the result. Other therapies and strategies are preferable until we understand better what the consequences may be.
For me that is what is important about this news. In a national and global crisis such as this pandemic there are bound to be troubling psychological effects on some people, including children.
Children went through a lot. Whether the stats are accurate or not, it would be surprising if the general trends were not seen
exhortations, not ‘exaltations’