Mental consequences of Covid19

For months now, government and health organizations have been constantly informing us about the preventive measures to be implemented against the advancement of COVID-19. Even now that hopefully the infections will be cured with the vaccine and our life can have a chance to return to a pseudo-normality.

What has perhaps not been sufficiently focused on are probably the psychological consequences that this period of pandemic and subsequent social Not long ago, the scientific journal The Lancet published a study on the psychological impact of the Coronavirus. The study related it to other similar situations of the past (albeit not with the same impact). One of them was the quarantine put in place in various areas of China following the 2003 SARS epidemic.

In that situation, the population was forced to remain in quarantine for ten days, a period that served To begin with, we know that one of the measures that governments have implemented to prevent the spread of Coronavirus and to overcome the disease (when the symptoms are mild), is that of quarantine. This implies total isolation for a duration of at least 15 days. The researchers who completed the study concluded that after ten days of total isolation, the mind Going instead more specifically to the clinic, one of the most evident psychological consequences of COVID-19 is still for many people the fear of being infected or being able to infect others without knowing it.

It is important to emphasize that, when an epidemic or pandemic situation expands, the human mind tends to develop irrational fears. It is often not enough that we listen to re-isolation may have had or currently have on people. In fact, factors such as social isolation, confinement at home and the weight of general uncertainty can now hit our mental balance hard.