How isolation and quarantine affects Canadians’ mental health
As the pandemic drags on, its toll on our mental health could be exacerbated by a time of year that many people already find difficult: the holiday season, coupled with winter. We talk to Emily Jenkins, an assistant professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia, about the results of a Canadian Mental Health Association survey on the impact of quarantine; and Dr. Tyler Black, a psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Plus, we hear how Ted Clugston, mayor of Medicine Hat, Alta., is coping with a number of suicides in his city.