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Demand for mental health supports and suicide prevention services have soared across Ireland during the 13-month Covid-19 pandemic.  The revelation from Ireland’s first Professor of Public Mental Health, Prof Ella Arensman, has verified mounting anecdotal concerns that the pandemic is having a significant mental health impact through extended isolation, lack of social interaction, financial stress and personal fears about the virus. Studies are now under way to determine the impact successive pandemic lockdowns have had on mental health. Suicide statistics for 2020 will not be available fo...

Pandemic is driving 'unprecedented demand' for suicide prevention and mental health services Ella Arensman has been appointed Ireland’s first Professor of Public Mental Health. By Órla Ryan Tuesday 6 Apr 2021, 6:30 AM 2 hours ago 7,588 Views 7 Comments Professor Ella Arensman Image: UCC IRELAND’S FIRST PROFESSOR of Public Mental Health has stated that demand for public mental health and suicide prevention research and services is great...

However, while there is anecdotal evidence of a surge in mental health-related pleas for help during the pandemic, there is no indication the number of suicides has soared significantly above levels experienced pre-Covid-19 in 2018 or 2019. GPs revealed that pleas for mental health supports over the past year have been linked to loneliness, isolation, depression, stress over financial issues and emotional problems due to loss of a loved one in the pandemic. Medical experts warned that such feelings have been amplified by the loss of normal processing systems during the pandemic such as funer...

Cork professor: We can get Covid to zero if we extend lockdown Professor Ivan Perry, Dean of Public Health at University College Cork, who is a member of the Zero Covid Island group has said that Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s comments to The Echo regarding a zero Covid strategy being a “permanent lockdown” were a misinterpretation of the approach to curbing the virus. Roisin Burke andSarah O’Dwyer ZERO Covid could be achieved in Ireland in three months if we continue the lockdown, a UCC expert has said. Professor Ivan Perry, Dean of Public Health at University College Cork, who is a mem...