Fear of the virus, loneliness in lockdown, economic uncertainty: the Corona crisis is bringing many to the edge of what humans can endure.
For months, psychiatrists and psychologists have been warning to keep an eye on the emotional consequences of the pandemic.
They fear that the number of suicides will also climb.
"The rate of anxiety, depression and exhaustion has increased in Germany, but also in other countries," says the psychiatrist Mazda Adli, chief physician at the Fliedner Clinic in Berlin and head of the affective disorders research department at the Berlin Charité.
Currently, for example, the number of relapses that people with previous mental illnesses have experienced is increasing - and that after sometimes years of stability.
The reason, according to his thesis: