Prevention is better than cure.

Dear Stefan, thanks for the answer. I really appreciate your positive attitude for conquering the fear. We are aware that positive mindset will help to meet difficult challenges.

Thanks dear Ved Prakash for the suggestive answer.

As man is a social animal, social distancing for sometime due to any highly contagious and infectious disease including Coronavirus (COVID 19) can lead to loneliness and depression.Positive attitude and thinking during isolation can help the individual to overcome such problem.

The situation is really scary though Indians are not taking the things seriously owing to their mental inertia.

It is definitely stressful especially because it has been slowly building up and going on for a long time. Morover there is uncertainty how and when coronavirus will be cured. This fear adds up to the stress.

Thank you so much Mahendra Pal ji, Mohit Bajaj ji and Siddharth for sharing your views regarding the impact of (COVID-19).

Sushma Suri if we mean that coronavirus considers as a shock, I could say yes.

Thanks Faez Hasan for such a genuine answer..

From my perspective, there are a big impact on our mental health, primarily negative ones. When someone looks at the newspapers all around the world, there is only one available information-number of deaths and infected with COVID-19.

I personally believe that this can not have a positive impact on public health, even if you are trying to increase people's self-awareness about this current situation. This situation can make our immune system much more vulnerable, and so, make us more exposed to not just COVID-19, but any other disease.

Anxiety, fear, sadness, high levels of uncertainty and stress are some of the reactions that I have had to face, as a health worker, not only because of the impotence of not being able to be useful but because of what we will have to change in the future. What will happen to our older adults? What capacity do we have to manage the fear of contagion and death? Are our governments aware of the pandemic?

https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/covid-19

It is true and I share this note 100%...https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/covid-19.

But in addition to this, the management of depression and anguish of the lack of information about what is known and not known about the pandemic ,,, of not really knowing how many cases there are, how many tests have been done and if the measures taken are enough ... this creates a lot of uncertainty.

That was what I wanted to add since yesterday

Have the possible positive impact on mental health been considered? Has the pandemic given us the opportunity to put a new perspective on other issues?