One serious and unintended consequence of the coronavirus is the severe toll it’s taking on mental health. In the U.S., 1 in 5 adults suffer the effects of mental illness each year, but less than half receive treatment. The President and CEO of Mental Health America, Paul Gionfriddo, joins Stephanie Ruhle to discuss how the virus is causing more depression and anxiety across this country and potentially fueling a mental health crisis. Aired on 5/13/2020.
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Doctors, Nurses Struggle With Mental Health As They Battle Coronavirus | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC
Kevin james made a short film “out of touch”…. thats good
Imagine if you devoted your life to helping others, and for 50 days straight you had to see those people you’re caring for die every day, while having to be their stand-in family because visitors aren’t allowed.
I would be a mess. So thank you, brave and beloved healthcare workers. 🙏
@The Tweatles Imagine how humiliating it is to have a man who admitted to grabbing womens vaginas as your leader.
Oh, what a heart warming comment… 🤮
@RobVoyles True Bob, its true! Look into to it.
Not just that, you have these MAGAtards cursing nurses, calling it a hoax etc… America is looking like the dumbest country on earth right now.
@Burt Rango I’ve never heard any of this where is the reporting?
Stay strong 😷💪
Thank you for highlighting this issue. America is known for creativity & optimist. Worry & depression reduce this, which is an avenue out of this pandemic.
Medical teams all across the country are working hard. They should be praised for all the work they do working overtime choreographing dance routines to upload to Tik Tok. All while patients “Lay dying” from coronavirus. These medical professionals should be praised for the killer dance moves displayed in uniform in the hospital for their killer dance moves.
The health care workers need to be supported strongly. They are over worked, diligent and doing a great job.
Please let’s do everything to make their lives easier.
NO ONE ELSE?
Keith Mc Are these the same nurses that are dancing in empty hospitals??
Keith Mc Scamdemic
Keith Mc Plandemic
I know right ? Medical teams all across the country are working hard. They should be praised for all the work they do working overtime choreographing dance routines to upload to Tik Tok. All while patients “Lay dying” from coronavirus. These medical professionals should be praised for the killer dance moves displayed in uniform in the hospital for their killer dance moves.
Sometimes it seems like a viable solution. I’m former law enforcement and my ptsd is raging.I can totally relate.
You did your master’s dirty work.
@Whitey Powers that is unnecessary. Cops deal with alot of crazy things.
@Whitey Powers TY 🙂
@Jo Ann Cops work for Zionist that control the system.
I getcha Tracie, I am a retired psychiatric technician/nurse who worked in, Hospice, then CCU, then maximum security forensic psychiatric facilities with Sexually Violent Predators (by diagnosis) and mass murderers and serial killers. Where I worked right now the guards, nurses, doc’s and techs are getting hit. My C-PTSD is definitely getting activated. I am retired after being assaulted by a patient. Being a frontline worker is harder than the public realizes. I hope you can get care. I have struggled with suicidal thoughts and substance abuse, after I was almost killed at work. Well, you also know, after 30 years of working with first line violence and getting hit, kicked, choked, bitten, etc, as a nurse, and seeing so much violence and death. This reactivates a lot. As a police officer, I know you’ve seen and experienced more than me. ❤💗
No one knows anxiety or panic attacks unless you yourself suffers from it.I am seeing a lot of New York plates here in my area in Florida that’s causing me anxiety this may trigger another tsunami of COVID cases.
The latest back-and-forth comes as House Democrats eye a vote as early as Friday on a $3 trillion package that includes aid to state and local governments, assistance for essential workers, an extension of unemployment benefits beyond July and another round of direct payments for families.
“We’re taking a look at what we’ve already done — we’ve added about $3 trillion to the national debt — and assessing the effectiveness of that before deciding to go forward,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters on Tuesday. “If we reach a decision along with the administration to move to another phase, that’ll be the time to interact with the Democrats.”
He said the House bill “is not something designed to deal with reality but designed to deal with aspirations — this is not a time for aspirational legislation.”
The U.S. budget deficit is projected to rise to a record $3.7 trillion in fiscal year 2020, according to the Congressional Budget Office, although the U.S. continues to borrow at record-low interest rates.
Democrats say Republicans are using the issue now as a pretext to reject additional relief, arguing that they weren’t concerned about the debt when passing the $1.9 trillion tax law or other coronavirus aid measures that helped businesses.
“Well, it’s interesting to see what they’re saying, becoming now, renewing their fiscal hawk positions that they can barely remember. I have confidence in going big with what we do,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
“When I saw them give a $2 trillion addition to the national debt in order to give 83 percent of the benefits to the top one percent, that was so irresponsible in terms of it did nothing for the economy except heap mountains of debt on our children,” she said.
The budget deficit fell sharply under Barack Obama’s presidency amid demands from congressional Republicans. But it rose by hundreds of billions of dollars after the GOP took control in 2017 and passed tax cuts and struck deals to increase spending.
The clash comes as Democrats’ new legislation, which is backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., includes nearly $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments to cover expenses related to the coronavirus and pay health workers and teachers. McConnell and other Republicans have used the growing debt to pour cold water on that push.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., sounded the alarm about the fiscal situation as he railed against “bailing out” states facing budget woes during the pandemic.
“Our national debt and deficits — already at unsustainable levels — have skyrocketed as Congress has spent almost $3 trillion to address this crisis,” Scott said. “At some point, we need to start thinking about the impact this spending will have on our country’s financial future and the future of our children and grandchildren.”
The battle is less partisan among governors.
“As Congress reconvenes, delivering urgent state fiscal relief must be a top priority. Each day that Congress fails to act, states are being forced to make cuts that will devastate the essential services the American people rely on and destroy the economic recovery before it even gets off the ground,” Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a joint statement Wednesday. “This is not a red state or blue state crisis. This is a red white and blue pandemic. The coronavirus is apolitical.”
Republicans are digging in their heels less than six months before an election that will shape the U.S. recovery from the coronavirus, and foreshadows political roadblocks that apparent Democratic nominee Joe Biden would have to deal with if he’s elected president. The outcome will affect whether the country pursues fiscal restraint or major stimulus efforts to recover from the coronavirus calamity.
A task force announced Wednesday by Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., includes some figures who have downplayed the deficit in pursuit of national goals: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and Stephanie Kelton, an economics and public policy professor at Stony Brook University. The task force features progressives and moderates who will recommend policy to the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee.
Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats should ignore GOP debt warnings.
“It’s absolutely a bad faith argument,” the New York congresswoman told NBC News in an interview. “They were not concerned about the deficit when they wanted half a trillion dollars that would be leveraged into $4 trillion for Wall Street and their donor buddies. And honestly, you know what? If they are that concerned about the deficit, I’m happy to meet them halfway and roll back the $2 trillion tax cut that they passed just two years ago.”
Medical students and physicians have had higher suicide rates than other professions and people their age for YEARS. Where have y’all been?
its America and no one cares.
Read Rusty Shackleford’s response to my comment and you’ll see why.
This guy is worse person to get suicide advise from
so sad to have zero mental health coverage in the insurance plan i got when i moved here to central florida.
The worst mental illness is in the white house.
Actually the worst mental illness is people that think they actually have a say in politics. President was selected by the global banking cartels. The two party system was put in place by the elites to keep mentally ill people like you divided on left vs right so you are easy to control. Derp 🤦🏻♂️
If you’re struggling with depression and are feeling helpless know that you are not alone, there are many others that feel as lost and lonely as you do. Please don’t let this bad year ruin the rest of your life, we will get through this together and if you need help then reach out to professionals.
This is real. I attempted suicide twice before this pandemic. I’m in a better mind space even in these dark times. I workout as much as I can (at home) it does wonders for my mental health. Marijuana can also help. If you don’t smoke that’s fine but it really can help. My anxiety is bad giving these times but I’m not suicidal at all. I’m just dealing with it everyday and praying to god that everything will be alright. I’m an introvert so being locked in isn’t unusual for me. To people who actually use to go out and hang with ppl, take this time to work on yourself.
When you are part of a system that cares only about profit, it’s hard for those who are denied healthcare to have any sympathy for the system that they are a part of.
Doctors support for profit because they enjoy lining their pockets with the wealth from death and Illness.
TOTAL CONTROL IS COMING. Check out the videos from “The Atlantis Report”
Soon enough, the trump collective will receive the message to swarm this site with shrieks of HOAX!!!!
BREAKING NEWS : The OBUMMER Administration Crooked List is out on the Flynn case and it doesn’t LOOK GOOD!
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!
Therapists are unaffordable ..lets start by making counselors and therapists affordable.
Wow. So hopeful 😐👍