CNN – Talia Kaganovsky has struggled with her mental health for years. But when Covid-19 hit, “it was almost like a giant slap in the face,” the 18-year-old freshman at University of Pittsburgh said.
Kaganovsky, like all Americans, had to readjust her habits and expectations when the pandemic began a year ago. For many high school seniors, that meant realizing there would be no high school graduation or the quintessential freshman year of college. But the coronavirus pandemic also meant she would have to create new ways to cope with her mental health. “I’ve been dealing with mental health for a pretty long time now, but only recently started looking into treating and coping more with it,” Kaganovksy told CNN. “I was starting to do really well, and then all of a sudden it was like I lost all of the coping mechanisms that I had discovered before.” Kaganovsky is among the many young Americans who have struggled with their mental health this year. Read more of this story at CNN.
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