By Yasmin Anwar, Berkeley News, April 17, 2020
The intense social isolation, stress and uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 is shaping up to be its own mental health pandemic. Already, spikes in post-traumatic stress disorder are being documented among vulnerable populations, health workers and other front-line personnel.
In the latest in a series of Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19 live webcasts, UC Berkeley psychologists Dacher Keltner, Sonia Bishop and Frank Worrell offered advice on how to tackle COVID-19 stress, based on their specific areas of research, mental health data and proven therapeutic interventions.
While Bishop noted that it’s too early to predict what will be the long-term psychological effects of COVID-19, she outlined how anxiety can escalate when there are so many unknowns.
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