However, this time of crisis is generating stress throughout the population. Chakraborty K, Chatterjee M. has done a study on Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on general population in West Bengal: Indian J Psychiatry 2020;62:266-72. The index survey suggested that worry and sleep disturbances were common among the respondents in the past 2 weeks. The pandemic threatened the existence of the respondents to a great extent and affected their mental status negatively.
Between March 23 and March 30, the National Commission for Women (NCW), which runs a domestic violence hotline, saw an uptick in complaints of abuse. In the span of a mere seven days, they received 58 complaints, much higher than usual, the Press Trust of India reports. The number has increased. Men are frustrated sitting at home and are taking out that frustration on women,” Rekha Sharma, NCW India chairperson, told PTI.
Around the world, complaints of domestic abuse have increased as people begin to settle into isolation. In Hubei, China, for example, domestic violence reports made to the police tripled under lockdown in February, from 47 to 162 reports, The Guardian reports. Brazil, Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Australia have all witnessed an uptick in calls made to domestic violence hotlines since the coronavirus pandemic began, as women trapped in abusive households are increasingly disconnected and alienated from the outside.
An article of Hindustan Times on 7 May 2020 shows that India is staring at a mental health crisis. The social and economic fissures exposed by the pandemic will result in unemployment, depleted social safety nets, starvation, among other things. This post-Covid landscape will be a fertile breeding ground for an increase in chronic stress, anxiety, depression, alcohol dependence, and self-harm. Going by the history of pandemics, and the knock-on effects of an inevitable economic downturn, India is looking at a mental health crisis, with suicide-related deaths as its lead indicator.
All social media, phone ring, newspapers, TV, every minute they are talking about pandemic. From last 3-4 months, we are only listening, visualising and reading about pandemic. New business is arising like PPE kit manufacturing, mask manufacturing, sanitizers manufacturing. One side of the coin is DARR
and other side is business. Media is only giving the information of nos. not details. Governments plays the game of politics. All statistics of death from other diseases are not coming. No discussions about the death cases. Some deaths are natural or with pandemic, No one knows. In spite of taking all precautions, common man is helpless and to live in a great stress, anxiety and fear.
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