This report from the WHO identifies a mental health problem associated with the pandemic and makes policy recommendations for countries to combat this crisis.

A significantly more optimistic analysis from psychology professor Lara Aknin, this article argues that humans are more mentally resilient than we give ourselves credit for. Although the pandemic exacerbated rates of reported anxiety and depression, more recent data has shown that these levels have started to return to normal.

A wide-ranging analysis of mental health amidst the pandemic, drawing on research from several University of Pennsylvania psychologists and sociologists. They collectively identify a number of groups that have been the hardest hit, such as communities of Black, Latino, Asian-American, and indigenous people, as well as parents and women.

This article explores the connections between long COVID and mental health issues - virologists have found that the illness can affect the brain, resulting in a variety of psychiatric symptoms.

Three expert psychologists from Duke University explain the current youth mental health crisis, how COVID made it worse, and what parents and communities can do to help.

This review of long term mental health outcomes in the wake of COVID finds that the panic over worsening psychiatric symptoms is largely overstated, and that the effects of COVID are mild at most.

This study, conducted by public health experts, finds that prevalence of depression has significantly increased during the pandemic. The authors attribute this to lower income, lower savings, and exposure to more potential stressors.

Daycare centers and schools closed, little support for childcare outside the home, and frequent remote work from home: this situation during the first COVID-19 wave in the spring of 2020 led to a significant increase in stress and exhaustion in Germany, especially among mothers of young children living in partnerships