Managing Stress and Anxiety during pandemic Covid -19
Deepa Regmi, Kathmandu. Most of us are aware that stress is an increasing problem for us. People tell us they’re stressed out from greater work load and having to work longer hours, some talk about the lack of job stability and non-payment for the job due to pandemic, some says that it is stress due to isolation and non-gathering of peoples so it became a pervasive issue in today’s society. Stress is a global public health problems with several negative health consequences, anxiety, depression, cardio vascular diseases and suicide. Continuous stress may lead to the unproductive rumination that consumes energy and reinforces the experience of stress itself. Stress has been linked to auto, immune diseases migraines, obesity muscles tension and backache, high cholesterol, coronary heart diseases, hypertension stroke and other quality of life issue that affect humans. Since the world health organization declared the Covid -19 outbreak a global pandemic, many of us even those who have not been infected by the virus, will choose to quarantine in our homes. In definite isolation, panic over scarce resources and information overload, household work, managing children and office work could be anxiety and feelings of isolation. It is a frightening time, we are in the midst of a worldwide pandemic with many places, some of us are in areas where the coronavirus infection rates are getting worse and all of us...
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