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The Burden of Care

India’s Mental Health Professionals Are Burning Out Amid the Pandemic Rush on Their Services

...in need of mental health care. There’s just one difference: Rao is a therapist herself. The Covid19 pandemic has created a mental health crisis in India. According to a much-reported...

By Liesl Goecker

The Success of Govt’s Proposed Tele‑Mental Health Program Will Depend Entirely on Execution

“The pandemic has accentuated mental health problems in people of all ages. To improve the access to quality mental health counseling and care services, a ‘National Tele Mental Health’ program will...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Happy New Year!

Illinois School Students Can Now Avail 5 Mental Health Days Every Year

...of the pandemic on their mental health. According to India’s Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry, 32% of the callers to India’s national mental health helpline launched during the pandemic, KIRAN, were students....

By Devrupa Rakshit

Quiet Desperation

The Pandemic Has Caused a Postpartum Depression Crisis in India

...and globally before the pandemic. And a small mental health survey of pregnant and postpartum women conducted in rural West Bengal last year suggests the pandemic compounded PPA and PPD...

By Liesl Goecker

Sign Me Up Please?

Spain Has Set Up a ‘Crying Room’ to Dispel Stigma Around Mental Health

...a mental health challenge… it is facing a possible mental health epidemic.” The global health crisis that unfolded through 2020 and 2021 has only made things worse. To alleviate the...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Coronapocalypse

UN Urges Countries To Protect People From Mental Health Crisis Amid Covid19 Pandemic

...sound mental health infrastructure, India may not be equipped to deal with the avalanche of mental health emergencies unleashed by the pandemic. “Good mental health is critical to the functioning...

By Devrupa Rakshit

The Silver Lining

Surviving the Pandemic Has Made Us Kinder, More Aware of Mental Health. Will It Last?

...accommodate their mental health. In a way, by setting and respecting boundaries, we’ve come closer. “Treating [mental health] at par with physical disorders is a step we are yet to...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Assam Government Sets Up a Mental Health Program for Covid19 Patients

...To Protect People From Mental Health Crisis Amid Covid19 Pandemic Governments around the world had anticipated that the global health crisis will soon be followed by a mental health crisis....

By Anubhuti Matta

From Your Head To Your Heart

Poor Mental Health Linked to Cardiovascular Diseases: Research

Mental health is an important component of heart health, concludes a new review of existing research by the American Heart Association and other leading health organizations. The finding suggests a...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Covid19 Pandemic Caused More “Mass Trauma” Than World War II: WHO

...physical well-being due to strained mental health) among anyone, according to a study published last year, titled “Emerging mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic: An Indian perspective.” This can...

By Saumya Kalia

Deathworthy-ness

More Than 60% Death Row Prisoners Are Living With a Mental Health Disorder: Study

...recommended converting death sentences to life imprisonment if an inmate is living with a mental illness, also proposed mental health interventions for inmates on death row. “We have seen that...

By Devrupa Rakshit

With Community Support Absent Due to the Pandemic, Kashmir Is Facing a Wave of Suicides

...to die by suicide but also rues the lack of mental health awareness in Kashmir. Although the health department has psychiatrists in every district hospital, mental health awareness, according to...

By Auqib Javeed

How the Chronic Loneliness Epidemic Is Affecting Us

...— not a diagnosable condition, but both a cause and symptom of a mental health pandemic raging under lockdown. Chronic loneliness is a long-term, continuous feeling of unwelcome isolation and...

(Men)tal Health

70% of Calls to India’s First National Mental Health Helpline Were From Men

...Is Still No Coverage for Mental Health Keeping the stigma around mental health in mind, the KIRAN helpline was designed to encourage people to ask for help. “Due to the...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Emotional Distress May Increase Risk of Covid19 Infection and Severity of Symptoms: Study

...mental health epidemic,” President Ram Nath Kovind had said in 2017. That was before the pandemic. On top of that, the mental health professional-to-people ratio in India is dismal, and therapy being prohibitively...

By Devrupa Rakshit

A Room of One's own

The Pandemic Has Changed Intimacy For Good

...first wave changed him; his mental and physical health was at an all-time low. “I find myself in this space where I feel lonely and crave intimacy but the thought...

By Saumya Kalia

Repeated Exposure to Trauma Does Not Make People Stronger, Shows New Study

...emergencies (such as gas leaks) — between 2000 and 2020. The researchers used a regular health survey to track people’s mental and physical health. The cumulative impacts from exposure, when...

By Saumya Kalia

Protect Frontline Workers

Nearly 25% of Health Care Workers Experience PTSD During an Epidemic: Study

...The analysis of mental health in previous global health crises will aid health care professionals working through the current Covid19 pandemic. Published in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, a meta-analysis...

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