Question

 

PHC 273

During COVID-19 people experienced several symptoms of mental health disorders (anxiety, depression, stress, and insomnia). Refer to the previous research studies and answer the following:

• Give examples of mental health disorders during the self-isolation period.
• Identify the groups at high risk to develop severe symptoms of mental health disease.

 

Answer 1

This covid19 has brought many changes in individual's life, this pandemic brought changes like in daily routine life, Personal life, professional life, financial problems, social isolation, family role changes, educational pressure and problems.

This covid19 doesn't have effect on special age groups of people, infact this have effect on each and every age group of people like children, adults, elderly people, male and female.

Not only fear of getting sick during this pandemic makes you unwell or affect your mental health but also information, rumours, changed lifestyle, self period isolation has impact on mental health and contribute to many mental illnesses.

The following mental illnesses are more prevelant in this pandemic:

• Disturbed sleep cycle. Due to self isolation period people get their most of the sleep during day time and wake up at night time.
• Health anxiety. Due to fear lf getting sick during this pandemic make people more anxious towards their health.
• Depression: economical weak people are more stressed for their earnings, and living. They don't have food and money or work to brought up themselves or their children. Also elderly people are more prone to get depression during this pandemic due to their degrading health and isolation.
• Fatigue and loneliness : not only elderly or common people have mental illnesses but health care professional have also impaired mental health, due to long working hours, personal protective equipment, isolation period, hunger, no time to eat and pee all contribute in mental sickness.
• Cognitive impairments: poor understanding of risk and isolation period can impair capacity to think or make decisions, it can effect individual to judge or to make decisions for their lives. This is more prone in elderly people.
• Generalized anxiety disorder.
• Bipolar or unipolar disorders.
• Higher incidence of specific psychotic symptoms.
• Eating disorder like obesity or overweight in this pandemic is increased.
• The most important mental disorder or mental illnesses has impact on suicidal thoughts or ideation. There is more incidence or higher occurrence of suicidal incidence among all age group people due to isolation.
• Substance use disorders are also one of the mental disorder that has rapidly increased in this pandemic among migrant or adult.
• Incidence of increasing child abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse are also effect of self isolation period and degrading mental health among people.
• Confusion, altered consciousness, memory impairments also more common in people with some illness.
• In adult anxiety, depression, traumatic distress, stress and PTSD symptoms are more in this pandemic.

the people which are more prone to get mental illnesses are:

• older people
• Homeless people
• Working migrants
• Health care professional
• Pregnant women
• Student studying abroad or in foreign countries.
• Earning member in the family.
• Essential workers who work in the food industry.
• People who have other mental health condition or physical health condition.
• People who used to have substance use behaviour.
• People who have lost their jobs, their professional life changed, long working hours.
• People with disability.
• People who are categorised in minority and racial groups.

ways to keep up your mental health :

1. Make your contacts and expand your relations with others.
2. Share your thoughts and ideas with your loved ones
3. Get help from others, don't be shy or stressed regarding getting help.
4. Get community, or organosational help or NGO help.
5. Feel Feel to ask anything and everything
6. Take care of your emotional health.
7. Do what you want to do, take your time to do your favourite activities like watching TV, doing creativity, gardening or cooking.
8. Get only useful information, stay away from rumours.
9. Get enough sleep, participate in physical activity or lifestyle. Eat healthy food.
10. Stay busy and have positive attitude and optimistic thinking.
11. Relax yourself and recharge yourself too.