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If you feel your mental health has changed since the pandemic started, talk a bit about how, and why.

I know for certain my mental health has deteriorated since the onset of the pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, I have been diagnosed with clinical anxiety, symptoms of which I had never experienced before. I am struggling to find a medication that's effective in reducing the symptoms without causing problematic side-effects of their own. Many days I find it hard to concentrate on work tasks more than a few minutes at a time, which greatly hinders my ability to work on big projects that need attention. I am very easily distracted, I'm exhausted from roughly 2p onward, such that I get nothing done for myself or my house/partner after the work day ends. My decreased mental health has decreased my physical health. It's going to be a very, very long road back to healthy when the pandemic is over in this country, provided I survive.