Depression, dependence and prices of the COVID-19-Crisis

Abstract

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COVID-19 suicides in Pakistan, dying off not COVID-19 fear but poverty? – The forthcoming economic challenges for a developing country

“…Like the previous pandemics, the unimaginable mental sufferings such as depression, panic, fear, anxiety, stress, trauma, adjustment disorder, etc. are reported in general people as well as healthcare professionals (Ahorsu et al, 2020;Frank et al, 2020;Jahanshahi et al, 2020;Montemurro, 2020;Sakib et al, 2020). These psychiatric sufferings are also accounted for about 90% of the global suicide occurrences in the extreme cases , similar finding is also reported in the aftermaths of the traumatic events (Mamun and Griffiths, 2020c).…”

Addressing potential impact of COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health of elite athletes

“…In this regard, sport psychologists report a higher demand for online psychological counseling and diagnosis of psychological disorders among these athletes during the pandemic, including fear of being infected, anxiety of physical recovery if infected, lack of access to fitness centers, disturbed sleep, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and family conflicts. Inability to manage stress and lack of proper coping may lead some to experience short or long term depression (Frank, Fatke, Frank, Förstl, & Hölzle, 2020).…”

COVID-19 distresses the depressed while schizophrenic patients are unimpressed: A study on psychiatric inpatients

“…The COVID-19-pandemic has distressed most people all over the world during spring 2020, and the situation has been particularly hard on patients with mental disease (Frank et al, 2020;Hao et al, 2020;Hernández-Huerta et al, 2020;Tian et al, 2020). Two months after the beginning of the lock-down with social distancing, job losses and fear of infection, we have examined a sample of psychiatric inpatients in the middle of May 2020 in order to quantify mental and somatic distress and compare between different diagnostic groups.…”