Not many feel the call to stay at home, as a rewarding opportunity to decelerate and even stop.
For most of the prescribed contact represents a lock-in torment, the curfew, the purest of boredom, and the empty streets in the city centre, no soothing calm, but something Oppressive.
And that’s not all.
Such as the German society for psychiatry and psychotherapy, psychosomatics and nerve medicine reported in Germany, can live with the massive restrictions in everyday life to serious mental stress lead.
An assessment that was shared by scientists in the UK, in the journal ‘The Lancet Psychiatry Journal’.
Corona causes anxiety, Stress, depression
The 24 researchers, among them psychologists and neuro-scientists to carry out more research and education regarding the impact of Coronavirus on mental health.
They have cited a British survey of more than 2,000 people, either themselves as mentally handicapped, nurses, or relatives of such people or in the respective professions with the groups of persons concerned of work, as well as more than 1,000 citizens from the population.
It had become clear that the width of Worries about the impact of social Isolation or alienation existed on the own well-being and increases anxiety and depression was recorded.
The fear of physical disease is of secondary importance
Not only in relation to the self, but also on the psychological impact that would bring in the tough measures to combat the Virus, and people with more background knowledge and a more open communication.
Ed bull more, head of the Department of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, said that according to his investigations, in the meantime, more people were afraid of the psychological consequences of the crisis than before, to develop physically.
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People with mental illness is also placed close to even in times of crisis professional help.
Attack Corona the brain?
In addition, the well-founded concern in medical circles that the novel Coronavirus can attack the nervous system.
Both neuroscientists as well as psychiatrists and psychologists give to concerns that such a connection with other corona viruses, precursors of the currently rampant SARS-CoV-2, already stated could be.
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To consider was therefore whether the Virus may infect the brain or immune reactions in the body could trigger, which could affect brain function and cause damage.
In addition to psychological studies in terms of the mental of dealing with the imposed security measures more and more neurological research is therefore urgently needed, the scientists more.
Important note: The information in this article contains only General information. For the diagnosis of a health problem we recommend visiting by trained and recognised Physicians.
Sources
- Holmes, E. et al. (2020): Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science, retrieved on 16.04.2020: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30168-1/fulltext
- WHO: “Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak”, retrieved on 16.04.2020: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/mental-health-considerations.pdf?sfvrsn=6d3578af_8
- DGPPN: “Coronavirus: tips for mental health”, retrieved on 16.04.2020: https://www.dgppn.de/schwerpunkte/corona-psyche.html
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