Black mental health patients hit hard by COVID-19, social injustice: 'We were already at a breaking point'
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 09:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Dr. Brandi Jackson, a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said the COVID-19 pandemic has been her most difficult period as a psychiatrist. With an uptick in anxiety and depression in her primarily Black clientele, she's seeing patients who have been clean for years relapsing on drugs—and citing the coronavirus as pushing them over the line.