Andrew Solomon: depression, anxiety and the virus

"It's not that an antidepressant will make people unafraid of this mysterious and awful virus, nor that a single hug will mitigate their profound aloneness, but they can help." Writer, journalist and psychology professor Andrew Solomon is the author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. The book won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times' list of the 100 best books of the decade. His other books include Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012) and Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change (2016). Having lived with long term depression himself, he is concerned at the toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking on people's mental health.