COVID-19 doesn’t only effect the lungs and hearts of the people it touches, the virus also deeply effects their minds and emotions.
Dr. Alan Podawiltz, Chairman of Behavioral Health at JPS, said the demand for mental health care has increased dramatically over the past nine months as COVID-19 has spread in our community and around the world.
The following op-ed by Robert Earley appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on December 4, 2020.
This year changed us all forever. It changed our world. It even changed our vocabulary. Masks are no longer just for Halloween. Social distancing is required for everyone, even the “huggers,” and “you’re muted” is heard more frequently than hello. Fauci is not a brand of marinara sauce, and a cough is not just a cough anymore.