

Post lockdown nerves?
A lot has been written about the effects of the Covid pandemic on our mental health. Particularly in the early days there was a rise in reports of depression, loneliness and anxiety. A study in the Lancet found that in the early weeks of the first lockdown depression and anxiety were at their highest levels and they then decreased rapidly after that. Perhaps this was because people got used to the new situation, or later on lockdown measures were being eased and the summer wa