9 Minutes
Table of Contents
- 1 Pandemic Effect On Mental Health
- 2 Depression During The Pandemic
- 3 Panic Attack During A Pandemic
- 4 PTSD Due To COVID Pandemic
- 5 Ways To Deal With Mental Health Issues During A Pandemic
- 6 Manage Your Information And Media Intake
- 7 Global Mental Health Crisis In Children During The Pandemic
- 8 The Closing Thoughts
Since the evolution of life, pandemics and humans have been going hand in hand with each other. Different kinds of pandemics found from time to time drastically affect people’s mental and bodily health. The recent pandemic that is COVID-19 is also miserably impacting people’s physical and psychic well-being. The severe effects of a pandemic on mental health can not be denied because of their clear visible influence on people’s lives. A pandemic develops anxious and traumatizing feelings and loss of happiness and interest from life.
The ending of this decade was with such a traumatizing pandemic COVID-19 which is equally alarmingly spreading in all generations and putting their mental health at risk of various psychiatric disorders, counting depression, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, mood disorders, and many more. The statistics revealed by World Health Organization (WHO) about deteriorating mental health due to pandemics, especially the current COVID-19 pandemic, have an anxiously triggering effect on human minds.
Since its emergence, this pandemic is becoming harder and harder to be controlled. In light of statistics about the COVID-19 pandemic from the US from January 2020 to October 2021, the recorded cases were 45,107,253, and reported deaths were 730,306. These disturbing statistics are also major contributing factors to the negative effects of a pandemic on mental health.