The Dutch Psychiatric Association has said that lockdowns, and specifically the closure of schools, have had serious, potentially permanent psychiatric side effects among young people. Dutch Psychiatric Association chairman Elnathan Prinsen in a report by the NL Times, said: “Closed higher education institutions and vocational schools threaten to leave young people with permanent mental health issues.” “The lockdown is intended to prevent illness, but it is the lockdown that is making people sick,” Prinsen said.
There have been numerous reports of young people exhibiting “serious problems” with loneliness, stress, and depression, which he suggests at young ages “can lead to a [permanent] mental disorder.”
“We know from studies that three-quarters of mental disorders develop before the age of 21. The average age at which such a disorder starts is around 18, 19 years old, which is exactly the age of students in secondary vocational education, college, and university,” and each time restrictive lockdown measures are put in place “more problems” continue to “pile up.”