Monthly Archives: May 2021

The Reopening World: The Joyous and The Tentative, By Nathan McClelland, Ph.D.

The pandemic and its associated consequences have been responsible for a skyrocketing of mental health issues. One such study cited a quadrupling of self-reported anxiety/depression symptoms during the pandemic compared with numbers from the prior year over a similar period. The mental health effects of the pandemic have been most strongly felt by young women,…

Post-Pandemic PTSD or Purposeful Paranoia? Anniversary reactions and the task of rehumanizing ourselves, By Jeffrey C. Singer, Ph.D.

A friend recently remarked that he had PTSD thinking about this time last year, as the COVID pandemic began to entirely collapse his reality along with the rest of us. I easily related to his distress and was reminded of a useful concept called the anniversary reaction. The overlap between anniversary reaction and posttraumatic stress…