Due to the lockdown, COVID-19 is dominating our daily lives. People need to look at their physical as well as mental health. With the lockdown, where we all are stuck inside the four walls of our houses, we are less connected with people. In these times, those whose job security has been threatened by the COVID-19 are likely to be experiencing severe stress.
Students whose exams are pending or likely to take admissions in universities, parents who now have to look at their children while working from home, labourers who have lost their jobs and are forced to go walk home, who are unemployed and likely to find a new job only after this lockdown, etc. are likely experiencing stress.
Parents whose children are teens, their duties are more difficult to stay at home and this can cause mental stress to those parents. Women who are facing increased domestic violence by their frustrated husbands are in danger as well.
We all feel isolated with the lack of social connectivity and face different kinds of mental health problems: anxiety, depression, etc. Even those who don’t have depression or anxiety are worried about their lives because this is the first time people are isolating for so long.
In these most difficult times, we need to sense that we are not alone. In recent years, there has been an increasing number of people who spend their lives online because of the internet. But there is still a reduction in the sense of community as some elderly or uneducated people are not online and some do not have access to the internet. It will be hard for them to be isolated.
Being stuck in our homes for more than 40 days can be difficult. This is also made uncertain by the fact of how long the coronavirus pandemic will last. So, in this difficult time, we need to look at our mental health.
At times of stress, we work better with our loved ones; we can connect with them and distract ourselves, we can create our daily routine by reading novels and watching movies, keeping social distance in mind, and can go for a short walk in nearby.
The government has also issued some guidelines to avoid mental stress and to stay mentally fit: eat healthily, exercise, do yoga and involve yourself in different kind of activities.