Mental health in the times of the pandemic

Abstract

Literally and figuratively, coronavirus fever is gripping the world that has greatly influenced the trajectory and priorities of how we presently live our lives. Enormous changes have been brought about by the many unfamiliar challenges’ consequent to this novel coronavirus pandemic, such as tremendous uncertainties as to the duration of the pandemic and overwhelming worry of one’s own vulnerability to this novel unseen formidable enemy, total rearrangements of activities of daily living, severe economic over-burdening that stares at a bleak future, and social isolation among other things. These situation, lingering with no optimistic quick fix in the horizon, wears down easily the psychological and mental defenses that pushes resiliency to a critical level favoring longer-term psychological maladjustments and even major clinically significant psychiatric illnesses.