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Coronavirus ups anxiety, depression in the LGBTQ community

from HealthDay News via Medical Xpress

Coronavirus ups anxiety, depression in the LGBTQ community HealthDay News via Medical Xpress In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, anxiety and depression are striking many in the LGBTQ+ community for the first time, researchers say. "What I was hearing at the beginning of the pandemic was that people who were already anxious were more anxious than ever, and we didn't find that," said researcher Annesa Flentje, an assistant professor in the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. "In looking at averages across the LGBTQ+ population, we found the greatest changes in anxiety were among people who weren't anxious prior to the pandemic," she said in a university news release. READ MORE

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