Due to the outbreak of the infamous virus (COVID-19) globally, we all are stuck in our home, hoping to go out. But with the cases which are increasing day by day, we are restricting ourselves to move out, we only go out of the house for emergency purposes like buying groceries or any other related items for our home. As the cases are increasing, we sometimes forget to take care of our mental health as it is equally important as our physical health. We always stress over small things, which eventually leads to bigger problems in the near future. Because the cases are increasing rapidly worldwide, it is also giving us the great amount of fear or concerns for our grandparents or the person who is suffering from a serious illness, who is more prone to this deadly virus if he or she moves out of the house in emergency cases.

Basically, Mental Health is a psychological condition of an individual, which means the way people talk, feel, think, react or behave. We can also call it as an absence of mental illness. Mental Health can easily affect the relationships, physical health and daily life activities due to stress, anxiety or depression which interrupts a person’s personal routine.  In Mental Health there is a factor of age, sex, ethnicity or income, so everyone has some risk of developing these mental health issues, as in India estimated by World Health Organization (WHO) that the mental health problem is 2,443 DALYs per 100,000 populations and the age- adjusted suicide rate per 100,000 populations is 21.1 per cent. People who are going through financial problems or being part of marginalized can also have high chances to increase the risk of mental health due to these entire burdens. India being the second-most populous country in the world, it shares the large number of people who are suffering from these mental health issues, such as, Depression, Bipolar mood disorder, Anxiety disorder, Schizophrenia, and an eating disorder.

So, because of this deadly virus (COVID-19), most of the places have restricted the social activities and the hospitals are flooding with COVID-19 patients, many problems related to mental health are emerging such as Anxiety, depression, stress, frustration and uncertainty about the future in the time of the rapid increase of the COVID-19 cases. Because, of the worldwide lockdown, teacher’s started teaching their students through online through zoom or Whatsapp but with online teaching there was end number of projects faced by students to complete by the allotted date which was the same date for almost all the subjects. This created pressure for students to complete their work so that they get marks to pass. No end semester exams where conducted, so instead of exams students faced projects, and there where many students who dint have proper gadgets to use for the projects, which was a burden to them. As the day by day increasing cases of coronavirus in the city, exams were cancelled; this resulted in disappointment between the senior students who prepared hard for their exams. Not being able to go out to meet the friends of their school or colleges, which are making them bored, frustrated or homesick because of lack of interpersonal communication. These all things are affecting and making them feel distressed due to loss of control, financial loss or having fear of getting this deadly virus to themselves or one of their family members. Many of the people are suffering from anxiety, due to the increasing cases of COVID-19 and the deaths relating to that virus or the deaths of their closed one, which is affecting them mentally, making them uncertain about their future. As the people who are not able to go out of their house, regarding the unpleasant situation, it’s affecting them as irritability, anger, confusion, loneliness, insomnia or suicidal thoughts. There are many people in various countries, who are not able to meet their family in their hometown because of this virus which is rapidly spreading and are stuck in the country full of the stranger. Because of this situation, the economy of the country is low and many lost their job, which leads to financial crises where they are having a difficult time to pay the fees or running the house for the family. All these current problems are giving high chances to fall in the mental health problems, which will give the negative consequences if we do not deal with this as early as possible.

There are no physical tests or scan which tell that if a person is having a mental illness or not, but there are some symptoms, which will give some possible signs of the mental illness such as:-

• Feeling sad or down for quiet a sometime
• Being confused or not able to concentrate properly
• Excessive sleeping or not having proper sleep
• Excessive eating or having a low amount of food
• Having extreme mood swings of High and lows
• Spending too much time alone, disengaging with family, friends and colleagues
• Felling of low energy or tiredness or not able to sleep
• Showing negative emotions
• Feeling of hopelessness
• Having an excessive amount of alcohol or drug for your mood
• Having drastic changes in eating
• Not able to complete the day to day task, which you are good at
• Showing the extreme amount of anger or violence
• Hearing voices in your head
• Instead of being in reality, facing delusion or paranoia
• Having thoughts of causing physical harm to yourself or others

There are different types of mental health problems and the individual should talk to doctors about their problems faced in their lives so that the doctor can recognize your problem and provide you with good treatment. If anyone close to you whether it be family, friends or any other individual who is suffering from mental illness, discuss with them about their problems and encourage them or motivate them and give them your support so that at least they feel little hope. Help them to find a good mental health professional and make an appointment with them, so that they get don’t attempt any self-harm on themselves. If you are feeling sad, angry, and confused or stresses, it’s completely normal because everyone faces it at the time of crises, just talk to your loved ones with whom you can trust. Maintain a healthy lifestyle, exercise daily, have a proper diet, get good amount of sleep and always stay in touch with your family and friends. Almost everyone faces mental problems whether it be stress, anxiety or depression, but there is always a cure for all these problems and before attempting any self-harm on yourself think about your family who is praying for your well being every day.