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Covid lockdown causes ‘global mental health crisis’ among children due to school closures

June 20, 2022
Henry Club

The World Health Organization has acknowledged that the Kovid lockdown has created a ‘global crisis for mental health’.

An international report by the United Nations agency found that the two-year sanctions have resulted in ‘significant mental health consequences’, especially for young people.

The WHO now estimates that more than a billion people worldwide are living with a mental health disorder, resulting in a quarter more deaths than pre-Covid.

It said there was an even greater increase in children, which ‘potentially reflects the deeper impact of school closures’.

The report said that the restrictions imposed to control the Covid gave rise to feelings of ‘social isolation, disconnection and uncertainty about the future’.

The admission comes despite the WHO praising China’s lockdown at the start of the pandemic and warnings that the UK lifting measures too early could lead to a ‘fatal resurgence’ in 2020.

Schools have been closed nationally at least twice during the pandemic, with students also forced to learn from home due to individual closures.

More than 100 countries also closed schools during the peak of the first wave.

The World Health Organization has acknowledged that the COVID lockdown, due to school closures and social restrictions, has had ‘significant mental health consequences’ in children.

Warning that the Kovid school ignored the students who devastated

The authors of a new book claim that a ‘chilling’ warning about the devastating impact on students from school closures during the pandemic was ignored by the government scientists behind Britain. lockdown,

Campaigners Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley unearthed a report written in April 2020, just a month after the school closed, saying the move was seriously jeopardizing education and that two-thirds of parents were already warning the mental health of their children of suffering.

Report written by four academicians and a civil servant on the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Understanding), said the risk to 30,000 vulnerable children is “significantly increased” and called for data to be collected urgently to determine whether child suicides are on the rise.

The authors found that the study had been quietly released as an ‘attachment’ to another report and did not appear to suggest that sage was discussed by other scientists.

They say it was one of a string of ‘ear-splitting’ warnings that went unheeded about the damage that school closures and strict social distancing rules would cause to children.

Children’s Inquiry, to be published this month, claims that during the pandemic children were treated as “realistically lower classes” and a whole group of students are now unwell, unhappy and educationally behind.

The book says: ‘It should be a shame for all involved that by the summer of 2020, most UK children were unable to attend school while adults queued outside Primark or went to pubs.’

The WHO World Mental Health Report was published by the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substances on 16 June.

It was designed to improve mental health around the world by looking at all the latest data available with case studies of people living with the condition.

It said more than a billion people are now living with a mental health condition, following a more than 25 percent increase in dung in the first year of the pandemic.

The most common types include developmental disorders such as anxiety, depression, and autism.

But children were hardest hit by the restrictions, officials said, with rising rates of bullying and abuse at home and isolation during school closures due to a lack of social interaction.

The report said: ‘The restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic had for example significant mental health consequences for many people, including stress, anxiety or depression, social isolation, disconnection and uncertainty about the future.’

It added: ‘There has also been a larger change in prevalence in younger age groups compared to older people globally, potentially reflecting the deeper impact of school closures and social restrictions on youth mental health.

‘For some children and adolescents, staying home may increase the risk of family stress or abuse, which are known risk factors for mental health problems.’

The WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substances is responsible for helping to prevent mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders and was not in charge of the WHO’s COVID response.

It was signed by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who faced heavy criticism for its handling of the pandemic, which was considered too ‘China-centric’, praising the Communist Party of China’s response. Covid outbreak.

After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in January 20202, he said: ‘I was greatly encouraged and impressed by the President’s detailed knowledge of the outbreak and his personal involvement in the outbreak.

‘It was a very rare lead for me.’

But in May this year, he has been censored by Chinese state media for criticizing the country’s current zero COVID policy.

The report found that bullying and sexual abuse are the biggest contributors to increasing depression among children worldwide.

Before the pandemic, the WHO estimated that one in seven (14 percent) children had a mental health disorder.

The report did not estimate the current rate but said the 25 percent increase in disorders worldwide was even higher among children.

It said: ‘Extended school and university closures disrupted routines and social interactions, meaning young people missed out on experiences expected for learning and healthy development.

‘Distraction and isolation can promote feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and loneliness, and can lead to affective and behavioral problems.’

Schools closed for most students longer than in any other country in Europe

Schools closed for most students longer than in any other country in Europe

WHO calls for increased spending on mental health services around the world.

It states that currently only 2 percent of the national health budget is spent on mental health globally.

Boris Johnson closed 24,000 schools in England for the first time on March 18, 2020, with some children returning sometime from June that year.

Classes were closed again at the start of Alpha Wave in January 2021 before reopening on March 1. Overall, schools in England remained closed longer than in any other European country.

Since then several studies have shown that young people’s mental health deteriorates when learning at home.

A study led by researchers from University College London has shown that during the first year of lockdown, the number of children dying by suicide is almost five times that of the virus.

Over one million referrals were made to specialist child mental health services last year – up 15 percent

research In Japan last November it was found that school closures during 2020 did not prevent the spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, nearly half (46 per cent) of children entering the welcome year in 2020 were not ‘school ready’ – up from 35 per cent in 2019.

As well as the impact on people’s mental health, economies around the world are now battling the highest inflation seen in decades due to the economic repercussions of shutting down societies.

This comes after a new book claimed that ministers ignored warnings that continued school closures would increase mental health problems for children.

The book, written by the founders of the UsForThem campaign, shows that then-Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield spent ‘weeks and weeks’ arguing that children should go back to school.

In May 2020 she demanded that ministers and the union ‘stop quarreling and agree on a plan’.

Ms Longfield told the authors that it was ‘absolutely unnecessary’ to keep schools closed until the last week of the summer term in 2020.

She said: ‘It added a huge additional harm to those children and was completely irresponsible and virtually criminal for those children.’