WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2021
MENTAL HEALTH COVID-19. ITS REPERCUSSION ON IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES AND DISADVANTAGED CLASSES
After more than a year and a half of pandemic, we are suffering the consequences of Covid-19, either as directly affected or as a result of this stressful situation: confinement, lack of social relations, lack of work, decreased medical care to other diseases...
Obviously all of this is causing an impact on our mental health. This is confirmed by the health workers of our country.
The WHO has reported that 93% of the countries in the world have seen covid-19 affect, and even paralyze, their respective mental health services, already affected by a chronic funding deficit.
We would like us, today in Mental Health, to stop to reflect on how people are experiencing it geographically, more distantly, such as Africa and most of Asia, which generally have fewer economic resources and where mental health has structural deficiencies.
However, it seems that despite the harshness of many situations, we must not forget that they have a strength derived from having experienced other pandemics, moments of extreme hunger and at the same time intrinsic values such as great love for the family, listening and respect for the elderly, social and community life, welcoming and helping others... All these values, experts believe, have helped them to have a special strength in the face of mental illness compared to what has been given to other countries we call developed.
We want to keep all these people in mind on a day like today.
After more than a year and a half of pandemic, we are suffering the consequences of Covid-19, either as directly affected or as a result of this stressful situation: confinement, lack of social relations, lack of work, decreased medical care to other diseases...
Obviously all of this is causing an impact on our mental health. This is confirmed by the health workers of our country.
The WHO has reported that 93% of the countries in the world have seen covid-19 affect, and even paralyze, their respective mental health services, already affected by a chronic funding deficit.
We would like us, today in Mental Health, to stop to reflect on how people are experiencing it geographically, more distantly, such as Africa and most of Asia, which generally have fewer economic resources and where mental health has structural deficiencies.
However, it seems that despite the harshness of many situations, we must not forget that they have a strength derived from having experienced other pandemics, moments of extreme hunger and at the same time intrinsic values such as great love for the family, listening and respect for the elderly, social and community life, welcoming and helping others... All these values, experts believe, have helped them to have a special strength in the face of mental illness compared to what has been given to other countries we call developed.
We want to keep all these people in mind on a day like today.
