‘After COVID-19, people will face mental troubles requiring a long-term recovery’

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Needs therapeutic awareness programs: Dr Al-Muhannadi

KUWAIT CITY, April 9: Kuwaiti Psychological Consultant Dr Khaled Al-Muhannadi is of the view that the sudden coronavirus invasion of the world has caused people to suffer what is known in psychology as the post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which generally occurs at the level of individuals or countries after natural disaster when people begin to experience psychological trauma similar to that felt after losing a relative to an accident, reports Al-Rai daily.

“This is PTSD, but on a personal level”, Al-Muhannadi explained, indicating what is happening now is a global psychological shock and emotional disturbance for the mean time, so the condition of an already depressed person will get worse, as well as those suffering from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder of cleanliness or self obsession, stressing the fear of coronavirus is a fertile environment in which mental illnesses grow.

He said society needs to be reassured now with government’s measures that necessitated the imposition of quarantine on those coming from abroad and implementation of curfew; Rather, these measures have increase anxiety among some people, because they do not have access to themselves.

He stressed that society accepts everything under these circumstances, because people are in a state of psychological trauma, so whoever searches for safety will find safe words and does not care about the statistics and official data issued about the virus, because he’s in a state of anxiety and tries to feel safe.

Also, the hysterical personality tries to draw attention by maximizing things while following imagination and repeating that this event is the beginning of the end of the world, which will be a setback for people and deaths in millions. He stressed that these people are trying to draw attention because they feel safe when they find people wrapping around them, and this character publishes rumors and search for prophecies to attract attention for people to see him as a savior.

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He mentioned that some people take prophecies and fantasies as a commercial means, while some of them try to spread rumor because they are “dependency figures” and nothing more, and some promote the rumor because they have no decision. There is a hysterical personality that always tries to search for strange things to draw attention, and this person’s paranoia increases when he starts writing strange things. These people have their customers at the time of psychological trauma, such that some may believe their words.

They are the source of panic and fear mongering among people, because their opinions are not based on any data or statistic. Therefore this character must be stopped by law and followed up by the Cybercrime Department due to problems they are likely to cause in society. He explained that the effect of coronavirus crisis on people will be similar to what is left by wars where people suffer from many mental illnesses that need a long period of recovery, especially among children.

Anxiety and depression can spread during this period, so there should be therapeutic awareness programs, stressing that transparency of the Ministry of Health in dealing with the crisis is a positive factor in alleviating rumors and mythical fantasies circulated by some. He explained that clarity with people while making sound and logical decisions is one of the most important things in dealing with the crisis. He valued the Ministry of Interior’s actions with the residency law violators, as this is very useful and appreciated.

He stressed that it’s natural for some people to continue suffering depression, fear and constant anxiety, adding “this is expected and should be in the meantime”. He called for intensifying awareness campaigns and guiding people to come out of psychological trauma, and try to reduce their impact on them in future even though the impact will be there. Al-Muhannadi reiterated that some people started complaining about sitting at home, so there should be awareness programs and treatment teams to provide consultations by phone, in addition to social distancing that was alien to the culture of society, but after the spread of the virus, many people began applying it to avoid the infection.

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