During the coronavirus pandemic, people are spending a lot of time indoors and keeping their distance from others, and a local health expert says this can take a toll on a person’s mental health.
“A lot of times people have under-lying mental health issues but they stay super busy in life and they say I’m just gonna go go go and I’m not going to worry about my mental health,” Licensed mental health therapist Janelle Pysz said. “Now that they’re kinda stuck, a lot of those mental health symptoms are coming up.”