Impact of Covid-19 on Mental Illness and Recovery Principles

MENTAL HEALTH

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY......................................................................................................................................1
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental illness from a client centred perspective i.e.
family and carers perspectives....................................................................................................1
Outline of the principles of Recovery, Consumer Participation and ways in which this might
assist consumers and their families/carers post the Covid-19 epidemic....................................2
Detailed description of three (3) online services that are available in Australia to support
consumers and their families with a mental illness....................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................4
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
A person’s psychological and emotional well- being comes under mental health. Covid-
19 pandemic has impacted whole world economically, socially and health wise. But majorly it
has impacted mental health of people. Lived experience of people with mental illness has been
impacted drastically because of this Covid-19 pandemic (Cullen, Gulati and Kelly, 2020). Due to
this Covid-19 epidemic health of people has been impacted in many different ways like stress,
tension, anxiety have been increased due to which chances of suffering from mental illness for
patients has increased and people who are already suffering from mental illness, their current
psychological and emotional health has been impacted and chances of recovery has also been
reduced. This assignment will lay emphasis upon impact of Covid-19 epidemic upon mental
illness, principles of Recovery and ways in which these principles can assist mental illness
patients and their families/carers post the Covid-19 epidemic in recovery. Lastly this assignment
will also provide details of three services that are available in Australia to support consumers
and their families with a mental illness.
MAIN BODY
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental illness from a client centred perspective i.e. family
and carers perspectives
One of the main impacts of this Covid-19 pandemic upon mental illness is that it has
increased stress and anxiety of people (Muruganandam and et. al., 2020). the uncertainty of
this pandemic and unsure results of this disease has put people in tension and stress. In
addition to this, this pandemic has impacted many countries economically as a result many
organizations have either deducted salaries of their employees. In some worse cases many
people have lost their jobs. This economic condition has further increased stress, tension and
anxiety within people as a result chances of mental illness within people has increased or it can
also be said that this pandemic has degraded mental health of individuals and has increasing
chances of mental illness. As it has increased level of loneliness, depression, stress, anxiety and
many more. In order to overcome this mental condition many people have increased usage or
addiction of alcohol and drugs. Many people who are not capable of dealing with this mental
stress and do not have any one to care off have developed suicidal or self- harm behaviour
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