Clinics in winter lockdown: enormous rush for psychiatry

The winter lockdown, which has been extended several times, puts a much greater emotional burden on people than the first corona shutdown in spring. Family doctors, psychotherapists and the heads of psychiatric clinics feel this in Lower Franconia. They all report a rapidly increasing number of appointment requests and more and more patients seeking help. “The lockdown in spring was tough, but then it got better towards summer,” says the director of psychiatry at the Würzburg University Hospital, Professor Jürgen Deckert. “But since November there has been one lockdown after the other. And people are suffering from it …

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