As many as 50% of people say they feel down, depressed, or hopeless in lockdown. People share how they are coping with mental illness in the coronavirus era.

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• Content warning: This article discusses mental health problems.
• Mental health problems are piling up as the coronavirus upends normal life around the world.
• Professionals say that many people are struggling with new mental health issues, and those who were already affected are finding it event harder.
• Business Insider spoke with three people directly affected by the crisis.
• One was a father diagnosed with mental health problems for the first time, another a woman whose long-standing issues have been exacerbated by the lockdown.
• A third is a volunteer in one of the increasingly stretched services trying to help.
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As the coronavirus pandemic upends daily life around the world, an unprecedented mental health crisis is beginning to emerge.

Health care professionals in many countries have described a crisis that is affecting many millions of people, whose lives have transformed even if they are not among those touched directly by COVID-19.

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