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Current life inherently has many potential factors that negatively affect mental disorders. Social disconnection, typically during the COVID-19 pandemic, affects people's psyche, promoting rapid progression and worsening of mental disorders. Loss of social connection makes people more susceptible to mental disorders such as anxiety, depression...
1. Consequences of Social Disconnection
Social disconnection is the loss of interaction between people and the environment. People who are socially disconnected will not be able to communicate, relate, share or exchange anything with others like before. This has led to financial and food crises, limited access to medical care and medicines. Social disconnection, typically during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a traumatic impact on the human psyche, promoting faster progression and worsening of mental disorders.
Loss of social connection makes people more susceptible to mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorders.
2. Signs of stress and psychosis due to social disconnect
Stress and mental disorders due to social disconnection will cause the following signs:
Anxiety : Due to job loss, economic conditions, complicated epidemic situation. Depression: The body has no energy, often suffers from stress, fatigue, long-term fatigue, wandering thoughts, no motivation to work, sometimes losing control of emotions, changing emotions easily, sad and then cry. Depression severely affects the ability to work and communicate. Even people with depression have a tendency to commit suicide. Fear Easily angered, excitable, irritable, stressed and easily changed emotions in a negative direction. Frustration, anxiety, boredom, guilt, always thinking that you are at fault with your family and pessimistic about the future. Sleep disorders: Difficulty sleeping, insomnia, not sleeping well, having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night, waking up still feeling tired... Using stimulants. Family violence. Mental disorders can go away on their own, but most of them will progress to chronic, leading to a severely reduced quality of life. The body is always in a state of fatigue, stress, fear, anxiety, and depression. focus on work and affect family relationships... At the most dangerous situation, people with mental disorders not only have negative thoughts about self-harm, but also can commit murder and then commit suicide.
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3. Measures to limit mental disorders when socially disconnected
Measures to prevent and limit mental disorders when losing social connection are:
Limit continuous access to websites, especially those that give bad news or have negative comments. . Instead, maintain relationships with family and friends through chat means such as Zoom, Zalo, Facebook,... to chat and share. Build good habits and healthy lifestyle on a regular basis, eat right meals and full of nutrients, sleep on time and get enough sleep, be physically active every day. Arrange suitable times for rest, schedule each day and follow the plan. It's best to have a quiet workspace to get work done. Just work enough time like at the office. Sign up for a helpful course or online training program that you haven't had time to do before. Do not use stimulants such as beer, alcohol, tobacco, drugs... In case you can't cope with the crisis, stress, and anxiety, you need to seek the support of experts. Early psychological intervention with psychotherapeutic counseling methods plays a very important role in the prevention of mental disorders later on.
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