Ojimba Chiedozie, Tumenta Terrence, Thanju Amod, Oforeh Kenneth, Osaji Joy, Saha Amal, Valbrun Leon
Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
J Med Cases. 2020 Dec;11(12):411-416. doi: 10.14740/jmc3594. Epub 2020 Oct 21.
The first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in Wuhan China on December 31, 2019. COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. To reduce the spread of this virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommended self and mandatory quarantine of exposed individuals and self-isolation. However, the psychological impact of this pandemic includes new onset or worsening of existing mental illnesses which include but are not limited to anxiety, depression from social isolation, eating disorders, and uptake in suicidality either in isolation or part of mental illness symptomatology. In the USA, suicide is the second leading cause of death among people aged 10 - 34 years while globally, it is the second cause of death among people aged 15 - 29 years. The authors present a case of two young women of minority population with no prior psychiatric illnesses who presented to the psychiatry emergency room with suicidal attempts due to COVID-19 pandemic-related psychosocial stressors.
2019年12月31日，中国武汉报告了首例2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）。2020年3月11日，COVID-19被宣布为全球大流行。为减少这种病毒的传播，世界卫生组织（WHO）和疾病控制中心（CDC）建议对接触者进行自我和强制隔离以及自我隔离。然而，这场大流行的心理影响包括新出现的或现有精神疾病的恶化，这些精神疾病包括但不限于焦虑、社交隔离导致的抑郁、饮食失调以及单独出现或作为精神疾病症状一部分的自杀行为增加。在美国，自杀是10至34岁人群中的第二大死因，而在全球范围内，它是15至29岁人群中的第二大死因。作者介绍了一例病例，两名少数族裔年轻女性，之前无精神疾病史，因COVID-19大流行相关的社会心理压力因素而试图自杀，前往精神科急诊室就诊。
