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| Published: May 25, 2020
COVID-19: An inevitable emerging challenge across mental illness
MA (General) Psychology, Lovely Professional University, India Google Scholar More about the auther
MA (General) Psychology, Lovely Professional University, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.243/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.243
ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to explore and understand the impacts of Covid-19 on people’s mental health, especially people who suffer from different kinds of mental disorders like OCD, GAD, substance abuse, schizophrenia etc. This will illustrates a new dimension for the health officials to come up with the proper service to assist them. This article throws light upon deterioration of health status of the mentally ill patients and obstacles of health professionals. Aggressive insight into the impact the COVIND-19 epidemic is having on patients who are suffering from mental disorders, like OCD, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, eating disorders etc. This will help us address the issues they face. Further to make a proper guideline on how to help them address their issues. As a mental health professional should try to overcome the challenge as it’s an unavoidable circumstance.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Kalita. L & Saha. A
Received: April 15, 2020; Revision Received: May 21, 2020; Accepted: May 25, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.243/20200802
10.25215/0802.243
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