UK lockdown causing 'serious mental illness in first-time patients'

Psychiatrists say services could be overwhelmed by ‘tsunami’ of sickness triggered by crisis

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People with no history of mental illness are developing serious psychological problems for the first time as a result of the lockdown, amid growing stresses over isolation, job insecurity, relationship breakdown and bereavement, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has disclosed.

Adults and children are having psychotic episodes, mania and depression, with some taken to hospital because of the heavy toll on their mental wellbeing.

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