5 WAYS TO TREAT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES EMERGING DUE TO COVID-19
By: Syeda Marya
Keywords: mental health, mental health. issues, COVID-19, 5 ways to overcome mental health issues
Introduction:
Have you ever thought that the success of a society lies in the mental well being of each individual? Individual’s physical and mental health is the cornerstone of a country’s production and therefore in the uprising of the economic status.
So, in this article we are going to discuss about how COVID-19 has impacted not only the physical health but psychologically impaired them.
If we look into our past, stress- related disorders have always been the main cause in impairing individual’s health. Man-kind majorly suffered because of the war-conflicts among the countries, inflation, natural disasters, social crises, obesity and other health related disorders.
Below are the factors of the emerging mental issues due to COVID- 19.
1.ISOLATION:
More than half of the world’s population have been affected over the anxiety and stress of COVID-19. Preventive measures taken for the spread of disease led to the social distancing, business and educational lock down and job crises that resulted in isolation and a great loss of finance.
In a large study conducted by American Journal of Epidemiology between the black race and white race showed that the black race had 32% of high mortality rate than white race that had 11% of mortality rate.
Association of components of a social isolation score with all-cause mortality by race and sex
2.EDUCATION
Most of the students around the world are facing immense problem in the face of social lock down. Students deprived of education and social circle has led to the anxiety and stress.
Students deprived of education are mainly due to the fact of e-learning gap that are occurring mostly in the middle-class families. Most of the platforms suggested for the teaching purpose are either not available in all homes or due to the lack of e- learning platforms.
3.ECONOMY
The financial framework all around the world has been hit greatly due to COVID-19, this has led the market share to decline from billions to trillions of losses. The shutdown of restaurants, schools, marketplaces, hardware, electronics and many more has to face a huge loss of budget traffic.
4.SOCIAL LIFE
The major issue that humankind is suffering these days is social distancing. The youth has to deprive itself from education, the older ones are at greater loss of health not because of the virus but due to the factual status of loss all around the world, the jobless individual had to face the crises of poverty and starting afresh with the new job that has seriously declined the health.
Strategies taken by CDC to cope up with the social distancing has been explained in www.cdc.gov
5.TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
The GDP loss all around the world caused the downturn of economy. The online businesses that are currently sparkling is not at the same stage a it was running on the retail side. This has been one of the biggest markers of anxiety and stress related disorders.
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CONCLUSION
The mental health in this pandemic has obscured the physical health of the individuals.
What in your opinion can be done to help manage this situation of COVID-19?