mands [11]. A substantial body of literature suggests the role of emotion dysregulation in accounting for the onset, overlap, and maintenance of depression [12]. Studies examining emotion regulation in depression have also suggested that depressed individuals exhibit more frequent use of maladaptive strategies, including suppression and rumination, when regulating affects and show difficulties effectively implementing adaptive strategies [13].
The documented connection between epidemics and mental health sequelae dates back more than 100 years ago, when Menninger associated the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic with psychiatric morbidity [14].
Over the past few months, a number of studies reported on the prevalence of depressive symptoms among the gene