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Pandemic affecting mental health

Nubaira Hafiz || risingbd.com

Published: 10:36, 4 February 2021   Update: 10:38, 4 February 2021
Pandemic affecting mental health

Nubaira Hafiz

Many people are now jobless, homeless, and suffering from a great depression during this ongoing pandemic. The cases of suicide are also increasing day by day. The students are now suffering terribly for their uncertain future. Their mental health is vulnerable!

According to the World Health Organization, the mental health is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”

It is as important as physical health. It is said that "A sound mind lives in a sound body." But can a sound body with a worse mind be called stable or fit? The answer is, absolutely not! When an individual is living with a bunch of depression and an unsound mental condition. It affects how we feel, think and act or react around. So, the term mental health cannot be ignored or avoided in any sense.

We are taking the necessary steps for keeping safe our bodies from coronavirus. It is also important to keep ourselves free from viruses like, anxiety, depression which are destroying sound mental health. There are many factors that can be obstacles to a better condition of someone's mental health. For instance, Biological status, situation based condition and mental trauma or abuse, family problems and financial crisis, etc.

Depression is not a fact for trolling or neglecting. But in the present time, the depression is blooming up among the people, especially, among the adolescence. It’s very important to give them the time and care they needed.

In the United States, the National Alliance on mental illness estimates that almost 1 in 5 adults experience mental health problems each year. The number is increasing at the time of this pandemic. Because people are facing new realities of working from home, temporary or permanent unemployment, lack of care and communication, social isolation, and a monotonous quarantine.

We all should keep in mind that we can easily take care of our mental health by doing productive tasks which includes creating things, doing some extra-curricular activates like doing art and organizational works etc.

The pandemic situation, however, has created many entrepreneurs, which is better than being jobless. One most important thing is that bad mental condition can not consider as mental illness. We should not lose hope, we should be positive and we should do effective works for the development of our mental health.

Nubaira Hafiz studies Bangladesh and Liberation War Studies at the Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU)

 

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