Color Us Connected: Taking care of our own and each other's mental health Fosters Daily Democrat By Amy Miller It’s shaky to say we are all in this together. Some of us clearly are “in this” way harder and more profoundly than others. People who lost jobs. Or work in health care or live in nursing homes. Adolescents, people of color, essential workers. Still, a full 30 to 40 percent of American adults in the past year said they had symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to numerous studies. This is at least twice and in some studies four times the level they saw a year earlier.