Pandemic Affecting Mental Health: The corona epidemic has not only affected people’s bodies, but also their minds. Adherence to continuous lockdown or corona prevention measures, fear of infection and tragic information received day and night due to epidemic, are making many people a victim of mental stress. Several reports suggest that the number of psychologists seeking help during the epidemic has also increased rapidly.
Children’s mental health is also affected
This phase is very disturbing even for the children. In schools, reading and writing together with our own age peers and then playing and jumping together with other children, everything is closed. Studying online at home and spending the rest of the time with the help of computers, mobiles or gaming devices, has become the routine for most children. For the only children of parents, the problem is even more.
Mental health apps can prove to be helpful in difficult situations
Overall, the situation is such that whether children and older are all facing mental stress. If this tension increases, then the problem of depression or depression starts. The trouble is that due to Corona, it has become more difficult to get psychological help. In such a situation, people struggling with mental stress or problems can take help of apps or websites that support mental health.
You can take help of cyclists from home
The biggest advantage of mental health apps and websites is that through them, anyone can use the smartphone or computer, wherever they are, they can benefit from sitting expert guidance and counseling. We tell you about some such apps and websites through which you or your family and friends can get help in facing these difficult situations.
Your friend (yourdost.com) There is such a web portal, which is available 24 hours to help people going through mental stress and problems. Yordost is also present as a website as well as Android app, which anyone can install and help on their mobile. The special thing is that there are more than 900 psychologists or counseling experts on this platform, who can help people overcome all kinds of difficult mental conditions. The extent to which people need such help during the Corona epidemic can be gauged from the fact that the number of counseling sessions through Yordost has increased by more than 120 percent since the lockdown.
Mpowerminds.com The name webportal also serves to provide psychological advice and counseling to the people. Psychologists associated with Empower also perform psycho-educational evaluation, psychological-educational evaluation, parenting-related counseling and couple counseling. Apart from this, services like music therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy are also available here. Not only this, a support group has also been formed on mPower, through which people facing similar problems can get benefit from each other’s experiences by connecting with each other. A big team of experienced psychologists is a big feature of mPower.
Emotionally (www.emotionally.in) There is an online counseling platform, whose aim is to provide professional help to those facing mental stress, who are still deprived of it. This website provides free emotional check-up facility. Apart from this, consultation with expert psychologist can also be booked through phone or live video conferencing through this website. The special thing is that special counseling programs are also being offered on this website for the patients of COVID-19, their caregivers, family members, friends, or those who have lost someone close to them due to the pandemic. This website also conducts group counseling sessions for companies.
ThinkRightMe (thinkrightme.com) and Mindhouse (www.mindhouse.com) There are two mobile apps from different institutions, which try to make people more healthy, positive and happy through techniques like Meditation and Mindfulness. Both these apps have special emphasis on yoga and meditation. Through which people have to feel mental peace, confidence and happiness by calming emotions like stress, restlessness, sorrow, fear and anger. For this, along with meditation, self-healing, music therapy and ways to get better sleep are taught.
The ThinkRightyMe app also provides tips to people to overcome the stresses associated with working life through these apps, which show the way to avoid depression and negative thinking through better fitness and positive thinking.
Toll Free Helplines: Apart from these apps and websites of private companies, there are also some helplines running with the help of government or social organizations, which provide help day and night to help people struggling with stress or depression. They are also completely free. Psychological help can be obtained by calling these helplines. You can see the details of some of these major helplines here:
- Jeevan Aastha (https://www.jeevanaastha.com/) Toll Free Helpline Number: 1800 233 3330, EMAIL: [email protected]
- Kiran Mental Health Helpline Number – 18005990019
- Spandana (https://www.spandann.org/): Helpline number: 9630899002, 7389366696
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