Tag Archives: mental health

Case An 81-year-old woman presented to our cardiac centre with acute onset ischaemic sounding chest pain during week 4 of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. She reported increasing anxiety since the start of isolation. The onset of chest pain was related to a package dropped off by her family and occurred within an hour of receiving it. Although welcome, this caused her a mixed extreme of emotions as it both heightened her sense of loneliness and anxiety, while at the same time caused her pleasure from family contact. Her past medical history included permanent atrial fibrillation (AF), hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and iron deficie

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – the coordinating body for the UK and Ireland’s 23 medical Royal Colleges and Faculties – has put together many useful resources on its COVID-19 web pages. A section on self-care resources includes advice on mental health and wellbeing is available at: https://www.aomrc.org.uk/covid-19-mentalwellbeing/ Further mental health assistance is available via the COVID Trauma Response Working Group (https://www.traumagroup.org) which has been formed to help coordinate trauma-informed responses to the COVID outbreak. Composed of psychological trauma specialists, coordinators of the psychosocial response to