By: Will Bledsoe, Ph.D. (2021)
While the fight over the pandemic, vaccines, and mandates rages on (and I use both terms deliberately), there is one nonnegotiable issue that needs to be addressed – regardless of which 'side of the mask' we're on.
That issue is the diminishing mental and emotional health that people are experiencing right now as a result of the pandemic.
The mental and emotional traumatic stress the pandemic has caused for many is real. And now, with the looming threat of the latest variant emerging (Omicron), the existential fears are being compounded. ...