{"id":10144,"date":"2020-03-25T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:10:16","slug":"impacte-de-lemergencia-sanitaria-pel-covid-19-en-la-salut-mental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/noticies\/noticies-del-sector\/impacte-de-lemergencia-sanitaria-pel-covid-19-en-la-salut-mental\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the COVID-19 health emergency on mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current COVID-19 health emergency situation is having an enormous impact on various levels. In addition to the uncertainty of its epidemiological evolution, there is concern about the economic situation related to the lockdown implemented to control it, which involves a radical change in habits and ways of interacting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In previous epidemics and the current pandemic in China, a considerable incidence of anxiety disorders of varying intensity has been observed. Concern for one's own health and that of family or friends can generate fear and escalate into panic, especially when social connections are lost and a feeling of helplessness exists. These experiences can have a severe impact on vulnerable individuals or when accompanied by grief from sudden loss of family members and without the possibility of saying goodbye. The consequences for psychological balance can be more long-lasting and even lead to post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The basic preventive recommendations to minimize risks are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>To be informed through reliable and verified channels<\/strong> about assistive devices, as well as about the evolution of the pandemic and preventive measures, avoiding continuous overexposure to news and permanent connection to social media messages.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Take care of family relationships<\/strong> within the home and through telephone communication or systems <em>online<\/em> with loved ones, especially those who may feel more helpless.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Normalize and contain feelings of anxiety, frustration, and anger<\/strong>, managing them through daily routines interspersed with constructive dialogues, gymnastic exercises, and creative activities known or drawn from internet information.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Take care of your sleep and practice relaxation<\/strong> through listening to calming music and deep breathing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frontline healthcare professionals are enduring considerable pressure, which is testing their physical and mental health. Thanks to strong ethical values and mutual support, they are able to continue their very difficult work. Community recognition is a great support, which must continue to be shown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Likewise, professionals in elder care, disability care, and homeless services, through great effort, manage to maintain the human quality of their work. Safe working conditions must be guaranteed, and institutional support must be provided for such an important task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We also cannot forget other often undervalued people, such as grocery store workers, who are also sustaining social life during these critical times and who deserve to be treated well and be able to work in safe conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mental health and social sector professionals are well aware of the impact of adverse situations on the psyche. Our task is to help and advise frontline professionals and to assist patients with mental health problems in complicated situations. Digital technologies have opened up possibilities for care for quite a few of these patients, which can now be of great use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The FCCSM has always had a preventive, interdisciplinary, and community-focused vision of mental health. In current times, it is more important than ever to help protect it and offer hope so that we do not reach the end of the acute phase of the pandemic emotionally exhausted. This will allow us to actively defend with evidence-based arguments the reorientation of the current socioeconomic and cultural model towards caring for people's needs and developing their potential in line with the WHO's definition of mental health.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La situaci\u00f3 actual d\u2019emerg\u00e8ncia sanit\u00e0ria pel covid-19 est\u00e0 tenint un impacte enorme i a diferents nivells. A la incertesa de la seva evoluci\u00f3 epidemiol\u00f2gica s\u2019afegeix la inquietud per la situaci\u00f3 econ\u00f2mica relacionada amb el confinament aplicat per controlar-la i que comporta un canvi radical d\u2019h\u00e0bits i de formes de relaci\u00f3. Ja en altres epid\u00e8mies anteriors  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticies-del-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}