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Health

How to cope with mental health fallout from COVID

June 4, 2021 Navya P K

A mental health fallout looms over Bengaluru with the coming of COVID’s second wave. It has to be dealt with at the individual and systemic levels.

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Health

What’s the toll COVID is taking on mental health?

May 31, 2021 Navya P K

Around 10% of the population could have long-term mental health issues due to the COVID pandemic. Support systems should be built to help people recover.

Health

Battle-weary Covid warriors dreading second wave

December 22, 2020 Mohit M Rao

The morale of ASHA workers, front line warriors in the battle against Covid-19, requires a boost.

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Health

How lockdown + unemployment + hunger + liquor increased domestic conflicts in low income households

June 18, 2020 Harsha Raj Gatty and Pranshu Rathee

Adding alcohol to the already-potent mix of livelihood loss and food insecurity set off a range of mental health issues. It manifested in domestic conflicts in low-income households. Women were often at the receiving end of volatile emotions and domestic violence.

Health

Countering child abuse during lockdown

May 2, 2020 Radio Active 90.4MHz

During lockdown, cases of child abuse are likely to spike but children have fewer avenues to seek help.

This long lockdown could result in severe issues for the elderly, like boredom, depression and other health complications. The elderly need to stay positive and keep themselves engaged. Pic: Luke Dhanaraj
Health

Indoor walks, online meetings and more: How a senior citizen is beating lockdown monotony

April 28, 2020 Luke Dhanaraj

Lockdown can lead to boredom, depression and other health complications for senior citizens. Walking indoors, online engagements etc can help them cope.

Sakuntala, 80, seated on the stage in the yellow saree, interacting with senior citizens at Nightingales Centre in Malleswaram before the nationwide lockdown came into effect. Pic courtesy: Sakuntala Narasimhan
Society

“Middle-class senior citizens left in the lurch during lockdown”

April 28, 2020 Sakuntala Narasimhan

The government had promised much during the lockdown – availability and home delivery of essentials, financial relief for senior citizens, and so on. Yet middle-class senior citizens have been left in the lurch.

Education

NIMHANS launches digital academy to help tackle India’s mental health crisis

July 13, 2018 Seema Prasad

In June 2018, NIMHANS, which has 5.5 lakh people from around the country seeking help at its doors annually, formally launched a digital academy that will impart virtual training to doctors around the country to address and treat common mental health disorders.


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