Minding Your Mental Health
When recent results from the Covid-19 Impact Survey revealed that 6 out of 10 of us had felt anxious, depressed, lonely, or hopeless in the preceding 7 days, I was reminded of that which I have mostly had the luxury of merely observing. I heard the buzzing open of two sets of locked doors that clang loudly behind you as you enter the hospital unit where your possessions are in a locked metal cabinet and the walls are bare of objects of interest to those skilled in suicide attempts. I witnessed the weeping father who would not see his little boys on Christmas because his malfunctioning brain led him to beat them. I stood in the darkened hallway in hushed conversation about how
