Stable Mental Health during COVID?
It’s been over two years since COVID started; everything is going back to how it was but way too slowly. The life cycle is getting back on track, but for a few, it’s getting dragged away from the path and being destroyed.
No tree can grow without fertile soil. Everyone is suffering through it, physically or mentally, but let’s talk about the mental health of a particular age group, the ‘Young generation.’ In the first four days of February & 12 suicide cases have already been reported, whereas around 27 people killed themselves in January.
That’s how COVID has affected young people’s minds; giving up on life looks accessible to them because they can’t find the light to hold onto. We’re in 2022, but yet not safe enough to go outside without any protection, i.e., Mask and Sanitizer. Somehow, this has created a stressful environment among the kids and youth, turning into self-harming tendencies.
A person can’t fight alone for long; at one point, they’ll just give up if they are all alone and empty inside, which is why they attempt suicide, and it goes un-notified or even unnoticed by their family members till they figure it out it becomes too late.
Not many are educated on mental health, so they usually compare it to personality, so they never figure it out and tend to ignore it. If a child behaves in a manner unlike them, that should be seen as them asking for help.
Otherwise, this could result them in depression, anxiety, and atlas to self-harming tendencies. Self-haring is not good; you don’t know when situations can change suddenly. The communication between family members is no more, at least in most families, which helps nothing in the emotional growth of teens.
If a family won’t talk and make an easy-going environment for their child, then there’s nothing that can stop them. They’ll be lost forever in this world with no will to survive, and one day they’ll be lost from everywhere.
Reach out to them, find them, voice for themselves. If you see them suffering, you must give a helping hand. Our community needs to be changed to help people fighting against the odds mentality.And, we should make mental health more awareness among our society; people shouldn’t treat it as just another excuse.
Nowadays, many people or children don’t share their problems with anyone, especially children who don’t share their concerns with their parents; they think that everyone judges them, but family cares about them, so trust them and just tell everything.
Parents always support you, but they don’t help you when wrong. Which is good and it’s giving a lesson to kids.
Published By – Vanshu Mehra
Edited By – Kritika Kashyap
