Suicidal Thoughts during Covid

Prranav : The Gut Feel Show
2 min readJun 28, 2020

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It’s been more than three months into the COVID-19 pandemic; the nation is on the edge of another well-being turning point, with frequent cases of death, isolation, and dread causing extensive emotional trauma. Executive agencies and authorities predict that a historic influx of mental health predicaments is cornering, naming depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic anxiety disorder, and a striking suicide rate. There is imminent concern over the potential for risen suicide risk in vulnerable citizens as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds.

Reflecting merely a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting stay-at-home or lockdown rules have had adverse outcomes on the cost-effectiveness and the emotional well-being of countless individuals. People are petrified of catching the virus; however, there is likewise ascertained anxiety encircling the pandemic’s impact on ordinary living.

The acceleration in the number of individuals addressing their mental struggles in conditions like these has risen, procuring consideration of the mental health well-being crisis in the pandemic. Through the primary stages of this pandemic, there was minimal concern encircling the mental suffering that it will spell along the way.

More than 20 suicides were notified in India’s ordinary pre-pandemic, and experts have solely divined the data to increase. There has been an inconceivable totality of suicides during the lockdown, estimating for over 300 non-coronavirus deaths in India.

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Prranav : The Gut Feel Show
Prranav : The Gut Feel Show

Written by Prranav : The Gut Feel Show

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