Introduction The Covid-19 epidemic represents general psychosocial stressor, which affected all individuals in given society. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the impact the corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) had on mental health, depression, anxiety, suicide, and stress in the general population. Methods The methods used to obtain the articles were through PubMed, with keywords of General population and Covid-19. This review article will analyze and summarize the findings of a few articles. -----Results The results of the articles showed evidence of Covid-19 contributing to worsening mental health, as well as proof that little attention was directed towards promoting and protecting mental health. The articles used obtained their data through the usage of questionnaires and surveys. The frequent questionnaires used were Depression, anxiety, and stress scale-21 (DASS-21), and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9), Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2). The results from the articles showed that mental health of the population was greatly impacted, anxiety of the general population was 27.3%, general anxiety of those infected with Covid-19 was 39.6%, depressive symptoms of Italians post lockdown went up to 38.9%, suicide ideations increased to a percentage of 30.7%, there was an increase of 75% in time spent watching television and gaming. ----- Conclusion Due to worsening of mental health in community, the next steps should be to provide the general population with resources and access to the necessary means to deal and cope with the stress and fear brought upon by the Covid-19 epidemic.