I think COVID is going to have a pretty powerful and meaningful impact on the potential viral origins or influences on many diseases that we poorly understand their genesis. Mostly owing to the fact that so many people got the disease and will recover and continue to live fairly normal lives, but a much more significant portion of the population will have long-term health effects that will serve as good sample sizes to study and analyze. It could go a long way in helping us to get to a point where we actually help people achieve optimal health as oppose to just keeping people alive.
I wonder what a Sumerian bar was like. Also, they must have had pretty lax public health rules if they let dogs go in. I can't take my dog to my local coffee shop!
Back then dogs would probably be preferable over the kind of fauna that would impose on you, even in the city. Besides they are a walking hand-towel, are they not.
I can appreciate how this would be incredibly controversial. I think part of the biggest problem with this decision is that everyone is agreeing that the reason for diagnosing people with a problem is so that people can get insurance coverage. So we are going to change how we interact and support people in our society just so that insurance can cover their support. It probably means that we need to actually reassess how we provide mental health care coverage for people under insurance rather than creating diagnoses for the insurance companies.
Also, I agree that the drug company response to this is also another big concern. Given that there have not seemed to be significant advancements (if I'm wrong please send links!) in depression and anxiety research that has provided actionable treatment options beyond the pretty blunt SSRI and other antidepressant and CBT, I could totally see drug companies just find more similar drugs that have the same blunt effect and tell people they need to be medicated. I realize those drugs have provided some life-saving help to some individuals, but it would be great to better understand specifically what causes those feelings/sensations/thoughts and find truly targeted mechanisms for understanding. The same is probably true in cases of extreme grief as well
I agree that this is a problem that prevents people at all income levels from pursuing other options. Partly there is the real issue that you present, which is that you can't afford to take 6+ months off between jobs. But you clearly did a tremendous amount of work to find your next opportunity and that might have been virtually impossible to accomplish if you still had to perform your previous job.
But then there is the issue with taking a break. Maybe this is more a problem that women experience, but I'd be interested if men feel like they experience it, too. However, when you have gaps in your employment, I have felt that people didn't respond very positively to that and wanted to know why you had a break and what you were doing it. Because god forbid you weren't doing something "productive" during that time.
The way our work style is makes it feel like burnout begets more burnout because the options to escape burnout might not actually be feasible for every individual.
