Offline: Meditations of melancholy
Abstract
So here we are. An email last week: “tensions are very high…one has little control over the chaos of the moment. I'm so angry, and so sad. It's exhausting”. These feelings, I suspect, are pervasive. A fractured world order, with the dismantling of systems that have shaped and stabilised societies, has provoked a surge of uncertainty. People are apprehensive, uneasy, fearful, troubled, disturbed, tense, even distraught. One can understand why. A cruel war of attrition in Ukraine. A terrifying humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan.
Fields of Study & Subjects
COVID-19 and Mental Health
Health and Conflict Studies
Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Lancet
- Volume
- 407
- Issue
- 10529
- Pages
- 660–660
- Publication date
- 1 February 2026
- Language
- EN