Iranian mental health during the COVID-19 epidemic

COVID-19 in People with Mental Illness: Challenges and Vulnerabilities

“…Recently, authors have drawn our attention to the effects of a pandemic of this magnitude, on the mental health of general population (Zandifar and Badrfam, 2020;Banerjee, 2020). Health anxiety, fear of death, fear of losing loved ones, loss of social connectedness, loss of employment and homelessness are some of the social stressors that may even trigger serious mental illnesses like depression or anxiety in previously healthy persons and likewise contribute to added burden in the mentally ill.…”

Cognitive biases operating behind the rejection of government safety advisories during COVID19 Pandemic

“…Countries are facing lockdowns to stop the transmission of the disease, leading to large economic crises throughout the world. The international crisis has been associated with the economic downfall leading to profound effects on the human psyche (Zandifar and Badrfam, 2020) This article aims to identify the psychological issues faced by the people in such situations and conceptualizes the reasons behind such issues. One of the most common responses nationwide was the denial of the illness, now the advisories are not being taken seriously by people (Banerjee, 2020).…”

“…We can still observe similar behaviours' here people are trying to avoid isolation or going about through their business. It has been observed in Iran that people during pandemics become more prone to common mental disorders like Anxiety and depression (Zandifar and Badrfam, 2020). Indian people are still in the state of denial and are unable to follow through the quarantine process put in place for all the suspected and cases (Banerjee, 2020).…”

“…In the current scenario, we are observing that the cultural background of people is affecting the decisions made by them in the COVID 19 pandemic. We can observe that different nations are responding to the threat of coronavirus by different behavior (van der Weerd et al, 2011;Zandifar and Badrfam, 2020). These attitudes can be two types, negative and positive, positive attitudes help in coping and adaptation but negative attitudes hinders growth and survival.…”

A chaotic and stressed environment for 2019-nCoV suspected, infected and other people in India: Fear of mass destruction and causality

“…The growth rate of infection, causality, and recovery is completely uncertain for this pandemic. Uncertainty and unpredictability are creating a more stressed environment which may increase the number of psychological disordered patients (Zandifar and Atefeh, 2020).…”