COVID-19: Stress and Mental Health in the USA

COVID-19: Stress and Mental Health in the USA
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Table of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u 1. Introduction PAGEREF _Toc94341365 \h 32. Discussion PAGEREF _Toc94341366 \h 42.1 Politics between the Right and Left in the USA PAGEREF _Toc94341367 \h 42.2 COVID-19 and Vaccines – Anti-Vaxxer vs. Pro-Vaxxer PAGEREF _Toc94341368 \h 52.3 Conspiracy Theories – Influencing Public and Mental Health PAGEREF _Toc94341369 \h 62.4 Stress in Social Groups PAGEREF _Toc94341370 \h 72.5 Vaccination Camps and Family Strains PAGEREF _Toc94341371 \h 72.6 Strains among Women PAGEREF _Toc94341372 \h 82.7 COVID-19 and Employment Stress PAGEREF _Toc94341373 \h 92.8 Corporate Responses – Inflation and Price Gauging PAGEREF _Toc94341374 \h 102.9 Effects of the COVID-19 on Housing and Homeless PAGEREF _Toc94341375 \h 112.10 Effects on Housing Costs PAGEREF _Toc94341376 \h 122.11 Food Insecurity and Financial Strain PAGEREF _Toc94341377 \h 122.12 Healthcare Affordability Crisis PAGEREF _Toc94341378 \h 132.13 Effects on Children – Loss of Parents during the COVID-19 PAGEREF _Toc94341379 \h 142.14 Effects of Losing Family Members during the Pandemic PAGEREF _Toc94341380 \h 152.15 Addictions and Substance Abuse PAGEREF _Toc94341381 \h 162.16 Suicide and Depression during the Pandemic PAGEREF _Toc94341382 \h 172.17 Sickness and Long Hauler Stresses PAGEREF _Toc94341383 \h 182.18 Work from Home (WFH) and Remote Working – Stresses of ‘New Normal’ PAGEREF _Toc94341384 \h 192.19 Stresses of Home Schooling and E-Classrooms PAGEREF _Toc94341385 \h 192.20 Recommendations PAGEREF _Toc94341386 \h 213. Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc94341387 \h 22References PAGEREF _Toc94341388 \h 23
1. Introduction
The COVID-19 outbreak remained an unprecedented event for the global economy. The pandemic influenced the economic and social settings worldwide by transforming process controls of routine lives from the core (Czeisler, Howard, & Rajarantam, 2021). In the pandemic, people from different social and age groups in the United States of America (USA) reported positive and negative influences on mental health and behavioral responses. The American economy experienced paradigm shifts in households, schools, businesses, and individual lifestyles (Bruin, 2021). The American government introduced different provisions to control virus contamination in the economy. The government announced lockdowns, standard operating procedures (SOPs) for social distancing, and other reforms to ensure minimal interaction among people. However, the provisions ignored the mental and physical well-being of the American people in the process—the government-controlled widespread viruses and fatalities (Czeisler, Lane, & Wiley, 2021).
The overall objective of this research is to explore, investigate, and measure the stresses experienced by the American economy during the COVID-19 outbreak. The investigation would identify the relationship between the COVID-19 and stress from political, social, and economic perspectives. The paper will study the influences of the pandemic caused by conspiracy theories, employment shifts, inflationary impacts, the introduction of the ‘new normal’ phenomenon, financial strains, and o...