Experts predict that an inevitable result of the COVID-19 pandemic will be a mental health crisis. One recent article projects that we could see 75,000 deaths of despair in the coming months.
We concur with these estimates; however, we also believe they miss the mark in one critical way. They fail to acknowledge that before COVID-19, our nation was in the midst of a massive mental health epidemic, characterized by millions of deaths of despair, and an 80-year high in our suicide rate.
