Covid-19 is a medical phenomenon that has affected individuals and society. It has caused anxiety, stigma, anxiety, stress, and xenophobia. We are not the same people we were going into Covid.
Widespread 'effects' of Covid-19
Covid-19 doesn't just affect our physical health, but its affects are widespread throughout many aspects of our life. It is affecting us all and is having a significant impact on mental and emotional health, causing anxiety and stress and impacting the way we interact in our daily lives and with each other.
Quarantine and self-isolation
Quarantine and self‐isolation have adversely affected mental health. In the early months of Covid-19 and lockdown a review published in The Lancet said the separation from family, loss of freedom, boredom, and uncertainty caused a deterioration in mental health. (Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The pandemic is unprecedented and as a result, both children and adults have experienced a wide range of emotions because of being placed in a situation, or an environment that is potentially damaging to their health.
Measures need to be in place
To overcome this, measures are required at individual and societal levels. With the right measures in place from governments, we can feel more comfortable. Instead, with the confusion, where mental health issues weren't there, or they weren't obvious if they were there, they can be now.
Conclusion
Mental health is a hard one to call, because not everyone recognises, or know they're dealing with mental health issues, but mental health is never far away. It is important to know what your triggers are.
Anxiety, depression, bipolar, mood swings and OCD are all mental health issues that if not dealt with, can get worse. For each of us to thrive, we need to have good sensible choices in place, to allow US to thrive.
With restrictions lifted in the UK, it is important to allow each other to adjust and live with Covid, particularly for those who are high risk and vulnerable. There needs to be patience, tolerance and understanding.
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I read that the impact of the pandemic on our mental health will be around long after the pandemic has ended. Essentially we are facing a mental health pandemic, although not everyone will know they have mental health struggles.
It is clearly time to change how we deal with mental health. I guess there is a silver lining in this terrible period in our lives, in that the pandemic has put our mental wellbeing into the spotlight and is helping de-stigmatise mental health issues.
As yet we don't fully understand the implications of what is already a mental health emergency and it remains to be seen what the public health response will be to the devastating impact the impact has had on mental health.
As Tim says, The CP Diary helps him to maintain his awareness at all times, and as he says, 'it is an enlightened path.' I would also suggest that people go and look at and buy your books, because they too help with mental health and mental health issues.
Having read both of your books, they are books that can either be read from cover to cover or you can dip in and out.
Thanks. Yes, agree. Covid-19 is here and has highlighted mental health. It is important to deal with our mental health.
Covid-19 can be our turning point. Through the other end of Covid-19 we will still have mental health to deal with if we don't deal with mental health now.
Thanks for the shout-out on my books. I know what's gone into them, I know how much they can and will help. Covid-19 is the perfect time to buy a copy.
On a finishing note, if we don't deal with mental health, mental health will deal with us. It gets worse before it gets better. It is important to act.