Mumbai: Four out of every 10 men in the Corona epidemic are struggling with mental health. About the same number of people feel that they have no person to talk to. This has been claimed in a research conducted under the campaign ‘Time to Change’. According to the study, 45 percent of the men have been struggling with mental health for the last six months. The study surveyed 1,500 people in the UK. It found that in the absence of face-to-face meeting with friends, 44 per cent felt that there was no one to talk to them. 44 per cent believed that due to the epidemic, they could not cooperate towards healing the mental health of their friends.
Do not trust the virtual world:
Despite the accessibility of technology, 53 percent of men said they felt uncomfortable discussing mental health through virtual calls. It was also learned that the number of people who could be called for help was less than three on average with a man.
Friend say, “I am good”, still you ask – how are you?
Time-to-change has appealed to people to ensure it again if they suspect a friend or family member is mentally unwell. Dr. Joe Laughran said – The world has changed but not being a good friend. He said that even if someone says on the phone that he is good, he cannot be good. So if a friend is silent during a group conversation, contact him. If you tell yourself well when asked, ask him again and again how. Laughran admitted that we could not catch the signs of friends being mentally unwell due to not having a face-to-face meeting.
Job insecurity increased stress:
Another research found that job insecurity during the epidemic also caused mental stress in employees. A study by the National Center for Social Research found that 27 percent of employees sent on a short day’s leave and 10 percent of working employees said that job insecurity was felt in May. Whereas before the epidemic this ratio was only five per cent. It was also found that staff stress was 60 per cent higher in April than before the epidemic, although it was 50 per cent higher in May. Workers had higher mental stress than those who were sent on a short day’s leave.