Mental Issue and Corona Pandemic (Women)

Abstract

In India, as the cases of COVID-19 increase, the mental disorder cases also rise in number. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become more stressful, but we should try to be mentally fit and healthy. Mental illness is a disorder that is more dangerous than physical illness. Men and women both are generally equally affected by this illness, but there are a few types of illnesses that are found more in women as compared to men. In the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation is more critical, there is lots of stress, frustration, fear of having the infection, and more concern for preventive measures to protect themselves and the family from this coronavirus. Stress, fear, anxiety, and social isolation act as trigger factors of mental illness or disorder. In this research paper, some common disorders are explained which are commonly occurring in this 2020 pandemic all over the world. Anxiety, depression, phobic disorder, eating disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder cases are more elevated in this pandemic. Risk factors due to biological, environmental, and psychosocial factors are pointed out in this paper. Women are more prone to a mental disorder because it has been observed that they take things extremely seriously and keep thinking about them, due to which they are generally under stress. Negative thoughts, or surrounding stressful environment, and daily increase in COVID patients also contribute to increasing the mental illness easily and many researchers also believe that hormones are also a contributing factor for a mental disorder. The treatment is also explained in this article. It is commonly performed by psychiatric doctors. The treatment includes medication and therapy. The therapy consists of individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, music therapy, etc. and is performed by the professionals.