Tag: mental health
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Covid-19 causing mental health crisis in America: WHO
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): The Covid-19 pandemic causes a mental health epidemic in the Americas over six months of lockdowns and stay-at-home initiatives due to heightened tension and drug and alcohol consumption, the regional director of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The pandemic has also brought a related problem in a surge in…
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Text messaging acts as mental health therapy: Study
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): According to a recent study, a text-messaging system could be a safe, scientifically promising, practical method to assist individuals with severe mental illness. The research team examined the impact of text messaging and the assertive community treatment program. People with serious mental illness are likely to experience symptoms each day for…
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Corona will be more painful than its future results
The impact of the Corona-related crisis has started to seriously affect the mental health of the people. A recent United Nations report states that around 270 million people worldwide suffered from mental illness before the Corona crisis. Now, this number has almost doubled. Today, the whole world has come to such a point where both…