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COVID-19 IS PUSHING DEPRESSION INTO OVERDRIVE

“I AM TRYING”

A few days ago, I tried to console a 40-something young man (I’ll call him Sage) who was having a severe mental meltdown. I’ll spare the details of the episode but all of the words, the gestures, the accusations and paranoid comments, the grief, the body language, the deep sobbing and inability to regain control, the anger, the sadness — all of this — was wretchedly…