Question

some sad point on lockdown

Answer 1

• No school
• No friends
• No fun
• No masti

Answer 2

Explanation:

The 21-day lockdown announced in the wake of the spread of coronavirus by the prime minister sent shockwaves in the people across the country and in the ensuing confusion and anxiety people started shopping and hoarding things blindly.

Gradually as the reality of lockdown settled in, it somehow began to get to people and several of them have now started complaining about feeling low and depressed. Fear and anxiety has started seeping in like never before which is getting obvious on people's faces as one walks on to the roads during the curfew relaxation period.

We asked Dr Harish Shetty how to handle this peculiar mix of anxiety and depression. Dr Harish Shetty is a reputed psychiatrist in Mumbai and nowadays he has been flooded with the calls about how to handle this kind of depression all through the day. He shared with us a five- point mantra to give to those who are going through this phase.

He calls it a post impact phase and says that all disasters have pre and post impact and we are in the early post impact phase. He says, “Isolation leads to high level of anxiety and also fear of losing things and the mood is very sad. And it has more impact on those staying alone, those who are mentally ill and those who have no physical activity and lastly those stranded in small homes.''