I have been on a community website and I am telephoning those locally with mental health problems whose numbers have been passed to me by their beloved

Just phoning them up , signposting them to help and support , chatting

Its isolating enough to be on a downer at the best of times but for those with the more serious problems like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder they are completely cut off

No psychiatric clinics to visit , no psychiatric nurses to visit them at home

And of course a lot of people are going to be experiencing mental ill health for the first time with the stress and strain of family life , work etc as this virus takes hold