The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on people’s mental health, with psychiatric visits up more than 10 percent from two years ago, National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) data show. About 1.3 million people visited a psychiatrist or psychologist in the first nine months of the year, up 3.2 percent from 1.26 million during the same period last year. The change was even more pronounced when compared with 2019, when 1.18 million people visited a psychiatrist — a 10.2 percent increase. March was the busiest for mental health clinics with visits from nearly 804,000 people, while June — at the height of a