Almost four in five LGBT+ people (79%) say that coronavirus lockdown has made their mental health worse. Rates of depression, anxiety and loneliness have skyrocketed.
Moreover, young, trans, black and Asian LGBT+ people have particularly struggled. That’s according to a new survey of 2,333 LGBT+ people by health and wellbeing site OutLife.
It found that 24% of LGBT+ people said they were depressed ‘very often’ or ‘every day’ before lockdown. But during lockdown this increased to 43%.