There’s no doubt early in the pandemic, healthcare workers were pushed to their limits.
Crowded hospitals required doctors andnursesto work long hours caring for patients suffering from an unprecedented and unpredictable COVID-19 virus.
The pressure and demands of the situation put a physical and mental strain on those seeing patients.
Breen died by suicide on April 26, 2020.
Corey Feist
What Lorna was feeling is felt by doctors and nurses across the country today.
The responses moved them to establish theDr.
On March 18, 2022, the foundation’s work helped pass theDr.
The more we talk about mental health, the more we normalize it and give others permission to speak.
Lorna was the toughest person I knew in the world and she was a seasoned physician in New York.
She worked through Ebola in New York and other crises.
This wasnt about being tough.
He added that many solutions to the problem are complex, but that small actions can help.
They hope licensing boards will change questions to reflect current mental health impairment and exclude past ones.
The therapists raised their hands in droves to offer free therapy to healthcare workers.
I put together a team, which I led to set up to be able to scale.
How were they processing the anxiety around constant exposure to a potentially deadly virus?
And what could I do to help them?
She decided to offerfree and low-cost therapysessions to healthcare workers and asked her colleagues if they would join her.
Word spread, and before she knew it, thousands of volunteer therapists from across the country joined Silacci.
Childhood friends and even some kids I babysat (now adults) stepped up.
Over the past two years, the program has served thousands of essential workers throughout the country.
We all have a breaking point.
Some are still running on adrenaline.
Some are still numb and just trying to make it through another shift, she said.
[Therapists] are essential workers, and also qualify for free short-term sessions with us!
