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Economic crises, in general, are terrible for mental health. This one, however, goes far beyond numbers in a portfolio, darkening every transaction, both social and commercial. How we behave as consumers may be fundamentally changed long after this pandemic is a dark footnote of history.
“It’s akin to a PTSD,” said Ilene Green, a Manhattan clinical psychologist. “All of this will be on people’s minds in really quiet ways indefinitely. …I would not call it a mental illness, but this kind of thing does get folded into the psyche.”