A radical plan to treat Covid’s mental health fallout
In today's WIRED Daily, we report on the radical plan to treat Covid's mental health fallout and examine the science of growing your testicles.
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For most of his life, Frank Frost would go to the doctor and leave feeling worse. When the now-retired lorry driver would ask GPs for help managing his diabetes and obesity, most – as Frost recalls – would "tell him off" for not eating more healthily. Often, they suggested his problems were permanent. "They told me I'd be on insulin for the rest of my life," he says.
Discouraged, he didn't think he could improve his health, and for many years he didn't try. His divorce didn't help, nor did his always-on-the-road lifestyle. "For 30 years, I'd have 12- 15-hour days, living on takeaways and sandwiches six days a week, and then at the weekend I'd just want to get drunk," he says.
But five years ago, Frost had an encounter that would change how he managed his health. When he moved to Sheffield and found Ollie Hart – a tall, chiseled-jaw GP much younger than him – he also found a new understanding of what healthcare could be. Instead of reciting clinical answers, Hart asked Frost personal questions. Instead of suggesting a prescription drug, he talked about the next local park run.
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