TKC SATURDAY NIGHT PLAYLIST!!! MENTAL HEALTH SOUND CHECK FOR KANSAS CITY AMID CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN!!!

Under the best of circumstances mental health is a touchy subject that is often neglected or even downplayed in polite company. Stress, anxiety, depression and skill for coping are mostly reported clinically by the mainstream media and far more compassionate advocates are often openly mocked by cynical denizens of the American discourse.

As the U.S. coronavirus shut down is just getting underway, we notice many locals venting via social media and expressing frustration with their circumstances. Unfortunately, neither social media nor the Internets really provide the help that people need. There are exceptions and a few places where smallish online communities or private chats have offered encouragement . . . But for the most part, it's unwise to expect anything but trolling, hateration and equally desperate cries for help from strangers online.

Accordingly, we've compiled this quick glimpse at growing coronavirus mental health concerns and maybe a few hints to help locals check their head amid global hot mess:


Telehealth Head Shrinkers Treat Kansas City As Hobos Confront Growing Paranoia

Local psychologists adjust to new normal

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Psychologists at the University of Kansas Health System are staying busy, despite the coronavirus. Some patients, if need be, can be seen in person, but most are being seen in a different way. Therapists are using Zoom to visit with their patients.

Pandemic Mental Impact

Coronavirus pandemic could inflict emotional trauma and PTSD on an unprecedented scale, scientists warn

Researchers are warning that the coronavirus pandemic could inflict long-lasting emotional trauma on an unprecedented global scale. They say it could leave millions wrestling with debilitating psychological disorders while dashing hopes for a swift economic recovery.

Social Distancing Consequences

Coronavirus outbreak raises threats to mental health

Suicide hotlines across the country are reporting new increases in the number of calls they are fielding since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak and new social distancing requirements that are keeping people apart. The calls are just one piece of a growing mental health crisis that has come with the fear of a global pandemic.

Calls For Help Spike

Mental health hotline users spike amid coronavirus pandemic: 'People's worlds have been flipped upside down'

Crisis intervention organizations across the nation have seen a dramatic surge in people seeking mental-health services as anxiety grows about the coronavirus pandemic. "Many people are feeling anxiety or fear, or an acute sense of vulnerability if you happen to have respiratory vulnerability or are immunocompromised," Ken Duckworth, medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and an assistant clinical professor at Harvard University Medical School, tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

Prez Trump Reference To Rising Suicides Amid Economic Collapse Condemned

Trump's Warning About A Spike In Suicides Was "Incredibly Irresponsible." But Fears Over People's Mental Health Are Very Real.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump sat in the Rose Garden and told Fox News why he wanted to reopen the country for business - against the advice of almost all doctors and health care professionals.

TDS Counterpoint

Media meltdown over Trump's suicide warning shows the press can't let its hatred go

Even a pandemic can't shock the media out of its blinding hostility to President Trump - witness this week's absurd press eruption after he warned of a likely rise in suicides.

Sharing Head Check Advice

How to focus on your mental health during the coronavirus pandemic

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - A joke about anxiety and depression while social distancing and staying at home may be funny to some but for others, those mental health disorders are actually a reality. KSNT News spoke with the National Alliance on Mental Illness on ways people can take care of themselves during this time.

Accordingly . . .

Again, we won't give any advice other than sharing the general truism that Internets forums and social media frenemies aren't really going to share much sympathy.

For TKC, we merely abide by the wonderful misquote: "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast." . . . That sounds cooler than the old school fancy version and leads us to our playlist tonight . . .

Here's a quick collection of some of our favorite songs on the topic of mental health . . .



As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe and fun Saturday night. At home.