8 Women Share the Impact the Pandemic Has Had on Their Mental Health
8 Women Share the Impact the Pandemic Has Had on Their Mental Health © Illustration by Rachel Wada Cecilia, 37: I moved to Toronto from Argentina in 2001, and it was an unbearably lonely time. There are the intensely confusing and destabilizing cultural differences, of course (ah, so you don’t kiss the dentist hello here in Canada), but the lack of touch and connection was just so desperately isolating. In the ensuing years, I started a career, got married and created a new community. And then COVID-19 hit, and all of the loneliness I experienced as a new immigrant returned. I am having...