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Ashley Lutz

Dual COVID and mental health pandemics are wreaking havoc on Americans. When it comes to the latter, ‘the worst may still be to come’

Mental Health Pandemic The National Institutes of Health Nina Vasan

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For Chris Benecchi, living through the pandemic with two children suffering from depression was an entirely new level of struggle.

“It was remarkably profound,” Benecchi, chief business office of biopharmaceutical company Sage Therapeutics, told attendees Wednesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in Marina del Rey, Calif. He spoke on a panel about the treatment of depressive disorders, hosted by Sage and Fortune Well editor Jennifer Fields.

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