Smith also said this study does not include all the context around the rise and fall of these scores, explaining that at these times, there were other factors that could have contributed to feelings of anxiety, such as worries and confusion about jobs, schools, vaccines, and masks.
Gregory Smith, the chief of psychiatry services at the South Carolina Department of Mental Health’s Aiken Barnwell Mental Health Center.
“I think in our state, that was one of the things that made it a little more difficult was just the ongoing uncertainty - what’s going to happen, when is it going to happen, what am I supposed to do, and when is this finally going to end? We still don’t know a lot of the answers to a lot of those questions,” said Dr. But the report notes Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina had the largest percentage increases in anxiety scores from August last year to December, while Minnesota, Mississippi, and South Carolina had the largest increases in depression scores in that time.
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