Department of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Kišpatićeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia,
Psychiatr Danub. 2020 Autumn-Winter;32(3-4):449-457. doi: 10.24869/psyd.2020.449.
Crisis usually involves participants who trust and distrust each other, commonly in the same time. COVID-19 infodemic induced confidence crisis and distrust in authorities, science communities, governments and institutions can lead to harmful health behaviors and ill mental health and become a serious threat to public and global mental health as another kind of virus. Distrust mentality, conspiracy thinking and blame games may have detrimental effects not just on the individual level, but on the level of the whole groups, communities and global world. Public distrust and mistrust are related to the crisis in the domain of social and political relations, not only on the same country level, but also between different countries at regional or global level. Dynamics between public trust and mental health is a complex and bidirectional, ill mental health is causing and enhancing the inclination to confidence crisis, distrust, conspiracy theories and blame games and vice versa confidence crisis, distrust, conspiracy thinking and blame games are leading to ill mental health. It is important to have a holistic transdisciplinary integrative understanding of these dynamics and science-based treatment and prevention.
危机通常涉及相互信任和不信任的参与者，通常是在同一时间。COVID-19 信息疫情引发的信任危机和对当局、科学界、政府和机构的不信任，可能导致有害的健康行为和不良的心理健康，并成为对公众和全球心理健康的另一种严重威胁。不信任心态、阴谋论思维和指责游戏不仅可能对个人层面产生不利影响，而且可能对整个群体、社区和全球层面产生不利影响。公众的不信任和怀疑与社会和政治关系领域的危机有关，不仅在同一国家层面，而且在区域或全球层面的不同国家之间。公众信任和心理健康之间的动态是复杂的和双向的，不良的心理健康导致并增强了对信任危机、不信任、阴谋论和指责游戏的倾向，反之亦然，信任危机、不信任、阴谋论思维和指责游戏也导致了不良的心理健康。重要的是，要对这些动态有一个全面的、跨学科的、综合性的理解，并基于科学进行治疗和预防。
