We're exhausted. Mental health care providers say the exodus is deepening a longstanding shortage of psychiatrists, social workers, drug counselors and other mental health and addiction professionals as the need has exploded in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is already a pretty fragile, brittle existing workforce, said David Mineta, chief executive of the Silicon Valley mental health nonprofit Momentum for Health. And when you have vacancies, and you don't have enough coworkers, then it makes it really, really hard.
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