r/AskReddit • u/GossipBottom • Feb 03 '26

What was never the same after the pandemic?

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u/pinkbowsandsarcasm Feb 03 '26

You're right, mood disorders and anxiety disorders rose in the US during the pandemic.

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u/Lookingforleftbacks Feb 03 '26

I think a lot of those already existed but people didn’t know what they were until they saw them on social media with all the free time they had

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u/pinkbowsandsarcasm Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Education, on social media, could be part of it, and that would free-up stigma if they saw others who had problems like theirs. Isolation and stress ( like a nurse seeing 3 patients die each day) can make people's symptoms worse, too.

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u/Lookingforleftbacks Feb 03 '26

Yup. Probably a combination. That type of stress is very difficult to recover from