ROME, April 13 – RIA Novosti, Alexander Logunov. Prolonged isolation in conditions of a pandemic of mers is fraught with psychological problems, including risk of depression, PTSD and even suicidal ideations, but in these conditions it is important to learn to ask for help, told RIA Novosti psychologist and psychotherapist from the Italian Ancona Sarah Reginelli (Sara Reginella).
“Posttraumatic stress disorder traps people in medical isolation, for example, if they have contracted the virus. Several thousand people, who are now in hospitals or are being treated in intensive care, spend their days alone. When it comes to the lung, it can leave a deep impression to the person – physically they’re fine, but psychologically can suffer. When you’re in intensive care, in one position without the ability to speak – in such cases, it can actually go about the dangers of depression and PTSD,” – said the expert.
According to her, the appearance of post-traumatic syndrome former patients can experience a number of flashbacks and horrible memories that may come upon them suddenly and that is hard to resist.
“In the end, these disorders can severely affect quality of life even after recovery will happen from the coronavirus. Prolonged isolation, which is associated with the disease, this phenomenon, which is not prepared none of us,” said the doctor.
Reginella said that in recent practice, she met a real change in the psychological attitude of men to the epidemic: if at first among them I felt hope, that is now a lost her. The situation in recent weeks has deteriorated, she said.
“nobody knows how long it will last: there are economic problems, many fear for the job and the level of depression increases. There is lost of his identity – if someone feels like a job and social relations, and when it starts to miss there is a situation of loss. And we associate with the risk of depression. I see a lot more people who need support for a condition which needs to be taken”, – said the psychologist.
She added that in the current situation there is a risk of an increase in the number of suicides, although I myself have not experienced them: about them while still in the news.
“As in any other situation, the risk becomes higher when nothing is being done. In moments of crisis there is a risk of harm to their own body and self-harm… But people need to learn to ask for help, because all psychological centres and support services continue to work “, – concluded Reginella.
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