Health
UK ‘sleepwalking’ to mental health crisis as pandemic takes its toll – The Guardian
Coronavirus uncertainty and isolation will have a greater effect on the vulnerable during winter, say charities
Britain is sleepwalking into a mental health crisis as the government struggles to deal with the monumental effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Health experts and charities have told the Observer the coming winter will devastate the mental wellbeing of the nation as lockdown uncertainty, fear, isolation and loneliness are exacerbated by the colder and darker months ahead.
In England, the Centre for Mental Health has predicted that up to 10 million people almost a fifth of the population will ne…
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