Around one in six of us normally experience mental health challenges in the course of a year, but this is estimated to have increased to one in three as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Jim Lucey is a consultant psychiatrist at St Patrick's University Hospital, Dublin and clinical professor of psychiatry at Trinity College.
He has written a book called A Whole New Plan For Living: Achieving Balance and Wellness In A Changing World, which proposes and explores ten steps to help prepare ourselves for challenges by building and practicing balance and wellbeing our daily lives.
Jim joined us on The Last Word to discuss how we can all stay mentally well during and after the pandemic.
