Women Over 50 Working To Improve Our Collective Mental Health

The Covid-19 pandemic—and related economic slowdown—has produced a twin pandemic: a mental health crisis. Four in ten Americans are reporting symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, up from 1 in 10 before the pandemic; more than a third of the population has reported negative effects on their sleep or eating, while 12% say they’re consuming more alcohol than they did before 2020 happened.