Mental health is best ensured by urgently rebuilding the social and economic supports stripped away over the last decade. However, the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on the most disadvantaged, especially BAME people placed at risk by their social and economic conditions, were entirely predictable. Some people will need specialised mental health support, especially those already leading tough lives we need immediate reversal of years of underfunding of community mental health services. We argue that predictions of a ‘tsunami’ of mental health problems as a consequence of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the lockdown are overstated feelings of anxiety and sadness are entirely normal reactions to difficult circumstances, not symptoms of poor mental health. 1 Centre for Society and Mental Health, King's College London, London, WC2B 4BG, UK 2 Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 2LT, UK 3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK 4 Institute for Global Health, University College, London, WC1N 1EH, UK 5 Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK 6 Methodology Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2A 2AE, UK 7 Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1JD, UK 8 Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK 9 Survivor Researcher and Trainer, Independent Researcher, London, UK 10 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1DD, UK 11 Department of Psychiatry, University College, London, WC1N 1EH, UK 12 Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2A 2AE, UK 13 CERMES3, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 75006, France 14 Department of Sociology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK 15 Department of Geography, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK 16 Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK 17 School of Law, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK 18 Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK
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