As of March 2020, the respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has been declared a “pandemic” by the WHO. In an effort to stem the spread of the virus, governments around the world have ordered more or less restrictive isolation measures. If lockdown and social isolation have proven to be quite effective in terms of physical containment, mental health appears undermined by the onset of feelings such as uncertainty, fear, and despair. Likely, in the near future, mental health professionals will be called to face a “parallel pandemic” of acute stress disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional disturbance, sleep disorders, depressive syndromes and eventually suicides.
Lockdown and isolation: Psychological aspects of covid-19 pandemic in the general population / Mucci F.; Mucci N.; Diolaiuti F.. - In: CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 1724-4935. - ELETTRONICO. - 17:(2020), pp. 63-64. [10.36131/CN20200205]
Lockdown and isolation: Psychological aspects of covid-19 pandemic in the general population
Mucci N.;
2020
Abstract
As of March 2020, the respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has been declared a “pandemic” by the WHO. In an effort to stem the spread of the virus, governments around the world have ordered more or less restrictive isolation measures. If lockdown and social isolation have proven to be quite effective in terms of physical containment, mental health appears undermined by the onset of feelings such as uncertainty, fear, and despair. Likely, in the near future, mental health professionals will be called to face a “parallel pandemic” of acute stress disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional disturbance, sleep disorders, depressive syndromes and eventually suicides.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.