The corona crisis caused a significant change in our lives. Everything we were so used to doing was suddenly no longer possible. Grocery shopping became the outing of the day (or of the week, if you were hoarding). Compulsory working from home, no longer just meeting with your friends and hardly seeing your family: the corona crisis didn’t exactly make life any easier.
Research shows that a majority has developed one or more psychological complaints due to the corona crisis.
Mental complaints due to corona crisis
The survey was conducted by EenVandaag among more than 25,000 members of the opinion panel. The balance was drawn up six months after the corona crisis began. This shows that no less than 60 percent of the respondents indicated that they had one or more mental complaints. These can range from mild complaints, such as worrying and being irritable, to more serious complaints, such as depression and panic attacks.
It is interesting that especially young people aged 18 to 35 years are dealing with psychological complaints due to the crisis. In this target group, no less than 74 percent indicated that they suffered from this. 48 percent of the over-65s indicated that they had this problem.
Gijs Rademaker of EenVandaag tells it Password: “This makes the mental problems for young people many times greater than for the elderly. These are really big differences. ”
Discouragement
The main reason for this discouragement experienced by young people between 18 and 35 years old has to do with insecurity about their home or job, extra work pressure and, for example, care for young children. But the little contact we have also plays a major role in this. As a result, young people quickly find themselves in a rut and become despondent about the end of the crisis. These factors cause a lot of young people to get mentally torn apart.
It is therefore not surprising that the longer the crisis lasts, the more young people with complaints come along. The most common complaints are: stress (40 percent), loneliness (38 percent) and persistent fatigue (36 percent). In April these numbers were still about 10 percent lower.
Gijs Rademaker explains: “The corona crisis causes stress and makes young people increasingly gloomy. Perhaps we have dismissed complaints too easily, like: dude, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a party once. But these six months weigh heavily for young people. Not medically, but mentally. ”
Less nice
All in all, it appears that many young people find their life less enjoyable due to the corona crisis. Meeting new people at a party, going out to the terrace or spontaneously visiting someone: these are all factors that are no longer as normal as they used to be.
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