Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.When Lynn Cochrane describes the loneliness of being a carer, the sad irony is that she is far from alone.Among the many awful knock-on consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps the most worrying is the mental health epidemic that continues to spread largely unseen across our communities.Yet the feeling of isolation with which we all became familiar during lockdown has long been an issue for the silent army of unpaid carers, estimated to number more than 700,000 across Scotland and around 10,000 in West Dunbartonshire.The past year has only intensified their sense of being cut off from the outside world as many support services were reduced.
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