The world has been in a state of shock, chaos, and fear with the onset of the pandemic. People have gone through major changes in their life either due to the loss of a loved one, unemployment, social distancing – being in quarantine or just away from their near and dear ones.
The economic and business activities also have definitely taken a huge hit, be it any industry. Due to extensive periods of lockdown, there has also been a lot of domestic violence and other issues pertaining to family affairs. What do you think has been a major effect of all these factors?
The rising cause of worry during this time has been the detrimental effects on our mental health. During this time of difficulty, it is very important to take care of our physical and mental health, and more importantly, our mental health needs to be taken care of even to recover from our physical illness. During this time, talking in terms of health, one of the main psychological impacts is the alarming increase in stress and anxiety, especially in the lives of older people, health care workers, and people with certain underlying health conditions.
People with such high levels of stress often take to high consumption of alcohol and drug use, also due to depression and loneliness, self-harm and suicidal behavior become the way out of this condition for certain people.
Hence, a way to overcome all these problems is to keep your mind healthy. We can do so by following a few steps. Frontline workers can boost their conditions by following these steps as well:
- Maintain a healthy, nutritious, and timely diet to boost your immune system.
- Limit alcohol consumption and also avoid sugary drinks.
- Say no to smoking as it could cause serious diseases along with COVID 19
- Exercise daily whether you are an adult or a child.
- If you are working from home take short breaks of a couple of minutes every half an hour. This helps you refresh and prevents you from tiring out easily and quickly.
Coming to the crux of the matter is maintaining your mental health. To do so we can:
- We can talk to people whom we trust and share our emotions rather than blocking ourselves completely.
- To feel stressed and anxious is natural nature to man, but we can overcome it by listening to music or engaging in things that we are passionate about. Our hobbies and creative ideas come alive here. Many times we don’t even realize that we had these talents hidden in us. These hobbies can even turn into our business.
- Try not to read or watch too much news as too much negativity can have adverse effects on our mental health conditions. Limit to watching, reading, or getting news just twice a day from reliable sources.
Learn to take the positives, whatever life throws at you. Similarly now, we definitely see during this time we have come together as one humanity.