What To Expect When The Virus Is Gone But COVID Trauma Goes On | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

What To Expect When The Virus Is Gone But COVID Trauma Goes On

Posted on April 27, 2021

Look, we’re all going to be messed up for a while from COVID. Some of us a lot, some of us a little. But it’s trauma. It’s an event more powerful than the brain can handle and that means mental health repercussions down the road. So let’s talk about what might happen. Dr. Ken Duckworth, CMO of NAMI, provides insight into how trauma works.

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