While we are focused on covid19, we are grossly underestimating the mental health pandemic that is in making thanks to the impacts of covid19 in terms of health & financial worries, traumas of loss of lives, jobs, relationships, due to e-education in children, WFH in adults

We are unaware of the impacts of the changes that this pandemic has caused in our lives forged about acknowledging but that doesn't mean these impacts are not manifesting themselves. Anxiety, sleep disturbances, unexplained fatigue, emotional instability these are all impacts.

Employers, Schools, colleges are hardly sparing a thought to the enormous tragedies that our minds are experiencing since the beginning of this pandemic. And eventually this will impact our productivity.

We need to begin these conversations & dialogues with our employees & employers, with our friends, our families, our children.
We also need to start becoming aware of these emotional tolls. We need to put our judgement aside & be open to listening.

I have seen more cases of anxiety manifesting as symptoms of illness in the last 2 months than I had seen in the past 1 year. Young otherwise healthy adults coming with I have palpitations, vague pains, any & every symptom... their reports are fine...

These are simply people trying to reach out to others for their anxieties, their stress ending up in a doctors chambers to just be able to voice out how they are finding it difficult to cope up.

How the conditions are making it difficult for them to be able to see beyond the immediate carnage that the disease is perpetrating health wise & financially & socially.
And they are coping by feeding on news & persistent information which is further worsening the anxiety.

I don't know if those of you who are reading this need to hear this but I am going to say this anyways -
It is alright if you are feeling overwhelmed. All of us are.
It is alright if you are finding it challenging to cope up. You are not alone.

I can't say when this will get over. But it will get over.

Till then, try & be a little thoughtful towards those around you. We are all fighting our own little wars. We can all do with a little more empathy & little less harshness.

A little more generosity in the present without thinking of long term losses or gains.

The least we can do while we deal with collective screw ups or lacunaes at an organisational level is to spread out a little cheer & kindness on an individual levels.

Reach out. Help out.

If you can't offer listening....then atleast try not be rude.

Be kind.
Be kind.
Be kind.

Put this as a phone reminder if you need to - Just be kind; you have no idea what personal hell the other person is going through.