His thoughts in the videos were often disjointed and difficult to follow.... Those issues barely scratch the surface of the problem, and they have all been aggravated by the strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has placed on the health care system.... Even before the pandemic, studies showed that one in five Americans lived with a mental illness and about 5.6% of adults were experiencing severe mental illness, including diagnoses like severe depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia....