By MEGHAN PIERCE
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Director of Anxiety Disorders Service Robert Brady, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine Professor of Psychiatry Dr. William Torrey, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Media Relations Manager Audra Burns and NAMI New Hampshire Executive Director Ken Norton talk about how to get treatment for mental health and substance misuse issues during the pandemic during Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health’s Wednesday’s mental health web series “Heads Up: Coping Through COVID-19.” Courtesy photo—
The COVID-19 pandemic is difficult for everyone but is particularly hard for people that live with a mental illness or have trouble with substances, William Torrey, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, said during Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health’s latest “Heads Up: Coping Through COVID-19” web series.
During a recent installment, which live-streams on Facebook Wednesdays at noon and is later posted on YouTube, local experts focused on the resources available to people facing mental health illnesses and substance use problems.
“About half of Americans will have a psychiatric illness or a substance use disorder at some point in their lives. So these are extremely common difficulties,” he said.
Torrey likened the pandemic to an earthquake, with many aftershocks, that have the potential to worsen these conditions as well as bring out conditions that may not have been noticeable under pre-pandemic amounts of stress.
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