UK lockdown causing 'serious mental illness in first-time patients'

THANK YOU TO THE GUARDIAN FOR ALLOWING ME TO ANALYSE THEIR RECENT ARTICLE BY DENIS CAMPBELL, HEALTH POLICY EDITOR.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/16/uk-lockdown-causing-serious-mental-illness-in-first-time-patients

"Adults and children are having psychotic episodes, mania and depression, with some taken to hospital because of the heavy toll on their mental wellbeing."

If they are taken to hospital then the first line of treatment will be some kind of sedation and medication. Medicate first and ask questions later whereas under ideal conditions it should be the other way around but because services are so stretched the gentle 'brain chemistry' if there is such a thing is going to thwacked by the chemical cosh.

"Men aged 18-25 are reported to have been badly affected by first-time mental health issues. Previous research has suggested they feel the worst affected by restrictions on their movement, and are most likely to flout the lockdown."

I bet you, they are trying to process what has happened to them between the ages of 7 and 17. Don't forget we are talking about young men who have been regimented and conditioned by the 'discipline' of the school system and the moment they experience a little bit of freedom they have it taken away from them by some more 'experts'. They may be smoking strong weed in their bedrooms and they experience flashbacks. The repressed unhappiness that they have sat on since childhood floods out and it has nowhere to go, only tears and rage and perhaps psychosis. 

A survey it undertook of psychiatrists across the UK revealed that families were experiencing significant tension as a result of staying at home together all the time.

So why are families held up to be the glue that holds society together? Have they not heard of Philip Larkin's poem 'This be the verse' 

“One woman rang us recently and said her partner was walking around their house like a zombie because he wasn’t working and couldn’t provide for the family and had just snapped.”

The poor old hunter gatherer. What pressures are heaped upon the patriarch? Fucking useless man. Can't provide for his wife and children in a lockdown? What kind of man is this? Why doesn't he go out and kill a woolly mammoth?

One mental health nurse said that she and her colleagues were seeing people with a set of symptoms they had christened “corona-psychosis”. Such patients have typically lost their job and are having trouble sleeping, becoming anxious from watching the news on TV and no longer getting social support through their normal networks.

Why doesn't the TV news come with a government health warning? Oh it's because it's the government that is hammering the message home. "You are just a mere economic cog, a bar code to pay taxes. You could die you know but don't worry we have your best interests at heart. The Prime Minister survived. You might survive also if you are lucky"

One psychiatrist told the college that “lockdown has exacerbated behavioural difficulties in children” and another that they had seen “patients having severe psychotic symptoms which incorporate Covid-related themes”.

Well at least the professionals are acknowledging that there is a cause to psychosis and that symptoms and themes are important in listening to the patient. Psychosis just doesn't appear from nowhere. It is a build up of unacceptable feelings and emotions that society has not allowed free expression. The human soul then bottles it all up feeling worthless and awaits a trigger: Cue Covid 19.

 "The NHS has been adapting our services to ensure people can still get care like talking therapy or counselling with their clinician, even while still adhering to government guidance.”

Talking therapy and counselling? Luxury, sheer luxury. When I was living in shoe box in middle of road, the only thing they could give me was medication. 

I will leave the last word in analysis to mental health guru and expert Mystic Dai.