COVID-19 Fatigue

Exhaustion and impatience are creating new risks as cases soar in parts of the world. 

It's time to develop coping skills, which include exercise and talking about our fears and stress.

After months of dealing with the fallout from COVID-19, many people have pandemic fatigue. It’s a very real feeling of exhaustion stemming from the effects of the novel coronavirus on your life — from stay-at-home orders to the fear of getting ill to losing jobs.

Psychologist Carisa Parrish provides tips you can use to keep up these effective practices, avoid coronavirus “safety fatigue” or “burnout,” and protect yourself, your family and others from COVID-19.

If you are sick and tired of worrying about COVID-19, you’re probably suffering from pandemic fatigue, and you are not alone. While we all need to follow new, stricter public health guidelines to help drive down COVID-19 infections, we also need to find ways to take care of our mental health.

The news: There have been increasing numbers of anecdotal reports of a link between surviving covid-19 and developing mental health problems in recent months. Now we have some numbers to back those reports up. A new study, published in Lancet Psychiatry, has found that almost one in five people who have had covid-19 go on to be diagnosed with a mental illness within three months of testing positive.