Wellbeing in Society: Impact of Covid-19 on Mental Health and Strategies for Support

This document discusses the impact of Covid-19 on mental health and explores strategies to enhance wellbeing. It emphasizes the role of family and friends in providing support to individuals affected by mental health issues. The document also highlights the importance of virtual care and professional healthcare services in aiding recovery.

Wellbeing in society
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Explanation of Two concepts that relate to wellbeing.....................................................................3
Discussion of strategies that seek to enhance the wellbeing of group.............................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Mental health issues mainly involved certain conditions that affect individual behaviour,
thinking and feeling. These elements can have long lasting impact on mental health of
individuals and can further affect individual everyday function ability. Mental illness is also
known as mental health disorder that includes eating disorder, depression, anxiety and addictive
behaviours (Reddy, V.E.N.K.A.T.A.S.H.I.V.A., 2019). It increases stress and depression among
individuals that make their daily life miserable. It is essential for family, friends or guardians to
identify any sign of mental health issues in order to provide proper treatment to them in proper
time. In these present report discussions has been conducted on impact of covid-19 on mental
health condition of individual. Aim of this topic is to identify outbreak of covid-19 on mental
health issues of individuals. Report is conducted on the objective of the manner in which friends
and families can provide proper support to them in order to item support overcome mental health
issues.
In this report discussion has been conducted on different strategies and measures through
which effective support can be provided to individual those who are suffering from mental health
issues. Report include effective strategies that will help them in an effective manner through
which proper care and support can be provided.
Explanation of Two concepts that relate to wellbeing
Can be the impact of Covid 19 on mental health issues
Wellbeing is defined as an experience of prosperity, health and happiness. In simple
terms it mainly includes high life satisfaction, good mental health, a sense of purpose or meaning
and ability to effectively manage stress. Positive or healthy wellbeing mainly include number of
factors that are socially connected, feeling happy, purposeful and healthy. In addition to this it
has been identified that wellbeing mainly emerges from experience, thought and action. All these
factors can somehow be controlled by an individual with the help of positive thinking and
building meaningful relationships (McMorris and et. al., 2019). Furthermore it has been
identified that there are basically five forms of wellbeing that include emotional well being,
physical well being, social well-being, workplace wellbeing and societal wellbeing. It is essential
for an individual to build positive wellbeing in an effective manner in order to live a healthy life.
Emotional well-being play most important roles that can be develop by an individual with the
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help of emotion regulation, positive thinking and mindfulness. With the help of positive
emotional well being skill individual can effectively cope with challenges or stress and can
handle their emotions in a well define and effective manner. Furthermore, it has been determined
that with the help of strong emotional well being one can easily and quickly recover from
disappointments. It is essential for an individual to have access of some certain skills that are
positive thinking, mindfulness, happiness skills and resilience skills (What is wellbeing, how can
we measure it and how can we support people to improve it?. 2020). Physical wellbeing also
play one of the most important role in an individual life for which individual is required to have
correct nutrition and remain healthy by eating healthy foods and get detoxifying their body.
While on the other hand if it is talk about social well-being this can be developed by a person
with the help of communication, gratitude and kindness. Positive interaction will also help
people to build a social well-being through which they can effective enhances overall wellbeing
in an effective manner.
People with mental health issues
Mental illness is defined as a general term that has negative impact upon an individual
behaviour, thoughts, feelings and perception. This form of illness can have major impact on
personal as well as working relationship of an individual. Persons who are suffering from mental
illness find difficult to cope up with relationship, works and other form of demands, as it keeps
on increasing the level of stress that affect their mental condition in a worst way. It has been
identified that individuals who are suffering from mental illness can have symptoms like change
in behaviour, mood, perception or thinking (Lee and Lee, 2019). There are number of common
mental health and illness issues such as anxiety disorder, behavioural and emotional disorders,
bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorder or compulsive disorder, paranoid post metric stress
disorder and more. All these conditions have negative impact upon individual ability to function.
Furthermore it has been identified that mental illness makes an individual daily life miserable in
number of ways.
In addition to the site has been identified that mental health problems effects of long-term
conditions of individual everyday life and can further impact negatively upon their ability to
relate to everyday function. It is essential to provide effective health care support to individual if
there is any sign of mental illness get observed in their behaviour. Honest and open discussion
will also help in identifying their concerns (Stanley, Ferguson and Velayudhan, 2020). Family
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friend can offer professional care support to their loved once in order to encourage healthy living
standards. Mental health illness has significant capability to damage brain and cause serious
injury such as traumatic brain injury to a person. Prevention of mental illness is required to be
undertaken in early stages as it can further lead towards many complications. It is essential for
family members or friends to pay attention to warning sign and contact with therapies or doctor
as soon as possible in order to have routine medical care.
Impact on Covid-19 on mental health
Emergence of covid-19 has adverse impact upon physical as well as psychological aspect of
an individual. People those who tested positive with this disease are also affected in mental way.
It has been identified that large number of individuals are suffered from mental health issues
during or post Covid-19 that increases stress, depression and anxiety within their behaviour. In
addition to this, it increases the risk of vulnerability among them that develops chances of other
psychological disorders in their behaviour. Individual those who have gone through Covid-19
treatment or isolation faces fear of loneliness, anxiety, frustration, boredom and other
uncontrollable issues (The psychological impact of COVID-19 on the mental health in the
general population?. 2020). These factors affected the mental health of individuals in number of
ways. Furthermore, it has been underline that Covid-19 enhances depression and anxiety among
behaviour of individual that affected their daily living activities. In addition to this, widespread
emotional distress has been seen within individual behaviour. Along with this it has been
underlined that covid-19 developed miserable mental issues among social and emotional
behaviour of individuals that affected their way of living.
Discussion of strategies that seek to enhance the wellbeing of group
How the family and friends can help and support them
Covid-19 not only that disrupts physical health of patient but also affected critical mental
conditions of infected persons in number of ways. According to the survey of 130 countries it
has been identified that Covid-19 has devastated impact upon mental health condition of
individual. This pandemic has major threat on mental health conditions of individuals, as
symptoms of depression and anxiety were seen in their behaviour. Thus, in order to provide
effective support to infected individuals friends and family members are required to provide
them effective support. For this they can take advantage of different measures in order to provide
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effective support to them. It has been identified that corona virus outbreak of affected each and
every aspect of individual life. In this those individuals who are suffering from this disease are
not only affected physically but they are also getting affected in also mental way. It has been
identified that Government Healthcare Authorities provided guidelines to maintain physical
distancing in order to protect others to get infected from covid-19. However isolation affected
those individuals who are already venerable to chronic loneliness as Covid-19 left them
devastated in a mental way. This has been evaluated that friends and family members are not
allowed to see or touch infected person as this disease is easily affected to one person to other
(COVID-19: Support for patients and carers. 2020). However they can support them from afar,
family member can see patients by videos call on phone in order to stay in touch with them on
regular basis and make sure that are coping up in a safe manner. With the help of this family and
friends can provide emotional support to affected person. In addition to this family of friends of
infected person can send a note of encouragement in order to provide effective emotional and
mental support to infected people in a well define and effective manner. It has been evaluated
that those individuals who are suffering from covid-19 feel more affected in a mental way and
need effective mental health support. Due to strict guidelines and fast spread of virus face to
face meeting is not possible, as enhances chances to get infected. Family and friend of infected
person can take advantage of video call or group chat in order to provide positive support. In
addition to this it has been duly determined that support can also be provide to Covid-19 patient
mentally in a positive manner by fixing of medication appointment, it will help infected person
to overcome from this disease in an effective manner. Along with this, suggestions can also be
provided by friends and family members in different ways through which infected people can
cope up with corona virus pandemic in more effective manner without facing mental disturbance.
In addition to the mental care can be provided to individuals who are affected, with the help
of different mental health resources such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Post-
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and Mental health rehabilitation services. If it is talked about
Cognitive Behavioural therapy, it helps individual to change the manner in which they think and
help them to feel better. With the help of this improvement in state of mind of infected individual
can be provided. Family members can provide CBT therapy facility to infected person by a
professional health care person with the help of which proper emotional support can be provided
to individual (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 2020). Further it has been evaluated that in
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some cases individual those who overcome with this disease still feel stressed as their mental
health get adversely affected in number of ways. In order to provide them effective support to
overcome this family member can provide Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), treatment
facility to infected person those who get recovered from Covid-19 (Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD). 2020). It has been evaluated that some individuals those who undergone
through isolation period felt shocked. Thus in order to make them effectively deal with this
mental illness proper Health Care facility can be provided in an effective manner. Friends or
family member appoint a doctor or a professional Healthcare without any delay in order to
provide positive and healthy support to individual whose mental condition get adversity affected
as they faced allot during Covid-19 treatment. In addition to this it has been identified that
infected individual can be also provided with the facility of Mental Health rehabilitation services
as they may face difficulties to deal with mental illness that has been faced by them during the
isolation period (Mental health rehabilitation services. 2020). With the help of Mental Health
rehabilitation services effective support and help can be offered through which their confidence
can be enhanced in an effective manner. Thus, according to the analysis it has been identified
that with the help of these professional Healthcare services family or friends can provide help
support to infected individual in order to aid them to fully recover from mental illness.
According to the surveyed analysis of Accenture it has been identified that there is
significant change identified within 2700 patients in care during covid-19 that have been
embraced by patients (COVID-19 disrupting mental health services in most countries, WHO
survey. 2020). It has been identified that virtual support widely adopted by family members of
patient that help in continuing care in effective manner. Furthermore, it has been elevated that
patient experienced highly positive experience with the use of virtual devices, video calls for
monitoring and guidance. Virtual care plays an integral part through which effective care has
been provided to patients by their family members.
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CONCLUSION
According to the above mentioned it has been identified that corona virus outbreak have
adverse impact on physical as well as mental health condition of individual. This does not make
impact on physical condition of people but also have negative impact upon their mental health.
Individual those who have suffered from this disease have been seen with many psychological or
mental distresses that affected their overall way of living. However it is essential for family,
friends, and care experts to not only provide physical treatment to affected individual but also
identify any sign of emotional disturbance in their behaviour. It is important to listen and identify
changes in their behaviour in order to provide them support in effective time management, as any
delay can lead towards negative outcomes. Covid-19 adversely affected individual in mental and
physical manner thus, it is essential to provide them effectively support and care in order to
provide them and help to effectively overcome from this disease in both physical and mental
way. It is essential for Healthcare professionals to provide virtual tools like internet access,
active social networks, and telephone help lines, video call facilities to individuals during
treatment. With the help of this family and friends can stay connected to the patients through
which their fear of anxiety and depression can be recovered in effective manner.
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