How anxiety during lockdown led me to prescription drugs – The Guardian

Mental healthYoung people tell of mental health problems during Covid pandemic restrictions
Anxiety crept up on Oludayo Asuni until she was having a panic attack a day, and texts and calls from friends and family were increasingly going unanswered. As her world began to unravel, she was prescribed antidepressants.
The 23-year-old university student, whose family come from Kent, is among hundreds of thousands of people who started taking medication during the pandemic, or went back on to prescription…

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