Corona Virus and Psychology

What this lock-down gave me: Any lock-down is not good, many of us are facing it for the first time in life – so it’s all about adjustments, adjustments and adjustments. This is mainly written from Indian context in mind. Many of us have heard the word Corona for first time, even though it was there in some of our childhood textbooks but nobody was much aware about it as we all looked at it from study perspective only. Then the new word came Covid-19 and all its seriousness started increasing, and it came to a lock-down.   Earlier it was for 1 day so we all enjoyed it and then it was for 21 days and we all became serious about it. It was phase of each and every member of the family to be at home – so it was enjoyable but many of us were not used to be together for such a long period of time, at the same time the news came of all supporting staff (for home) will stop coming from tomorrow, so additional things came to all of us and the phase of work distribution started –

Corona Virus and Psychology – Number of people affected by Corona virus are increasing day by day across the world and here in Maharashtra and Pune. We are not different, Government agencies and people are trying their best to control it but still we see the number of cases are rising. People are making changes in their lifestyle to get it prevented. Everyone is affected but most affected are Students and working population (service sector) Malls, hotels, restaurants, theaters are closed, organizations are telling their employees to work from home, there are restrictions on social gathering affecting marriages and family functions, stock market is down, people can’t travel or they have to cancel their travel plans, financial losses are there as business is down - so in short lot of people are getting mentally affected by this and in few cases they don’t know how to deal with this. Some common psychological problems are – Anxiety (what will happen to me and m