Most of the world’s focus has been on helping those infected with COVID-19 and preventing further contagion. While successful, social distancing and self-isolation have been hard to bear, leaving more people contending with mental health issues.
I had an opportunity to speak with Elisabeth Mandel Goldberg, a family and marriage psychotherapist based in New York, about how these measures and the experience of the pandemic are affecting those with mental illness, a misunderstood and often stigmatized population.
