Mental illness deemed as next pandemic in U.S.: report

NEW YORK, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is overflowing with people suffering from a broad range of mental disturbance, and "mental illness is the U.S.'s next pandemic," reported The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

An emerging post-COVID-19 reality is that "a slowly building crisis of poorly treated mental illness, anxiety, depression and suicide is cresting just as the pandemic ends," said the report, noting that suicide, already the second leading cause of death among people 15 to 34 before the pandemic, has increased.