“Just making potatoes while dread presses in from every direction,” wrote John Green, the bestselling author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” in the caption of a cooking video he posted to TikTok at lunchtime Thursday.

Imagine being an anti-depressant pill, said one Tweet. You were designed to adjust chemical imbalances in the brain, but now, you’re being asked to “face off against a never ending pandemic, economic recessions, a spiraling political climate, and now World War III.”

Lawrence Palinkas, a USC professor who studies mental health, noted that, “as individuals, we may be able to cope with any one of these events. Having to cope with all of them simultaneously is proving to be overwhelming for many people.”

Coverage of the onslaught could be particularly difficult for U.S. residents who came to the country after fleeing conflicts in other countries, Palinkas said: “We have refugees from Syria, from east Africa, from Central America, even dating back to the Vietnam War, who are likely to re-experience the kinds of trauma that they endured prior to coming to the United States.”