'Grandma' and 'Grandpa' among top words trending in crisis text line grief conversations | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

‘Grandma’ and ‘Grandpa’ among top words trending in crisis text line grief conversations

Posted on April 20, 2020

Reports that one month into the quarantine, the kinds of mental health crises people are experiencing are changing and evolving as the pandemic wears on. “I think everybody has started to realize that we're in a chronic reality as opposed to an acute reality,” says Dr. Ken Duckworth, chief medical officer of NAMI and an assistant clinical professor at Harvard University Medical School. “I think we're just getting into a new normal of this, which is going to be ongoing.” 

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