Mental Health of Healthcare Workers on the Covid Frontline: Family, Violence, Stress & Helplessness!

Dr. Lovleen Kaur, Clinical Psychologist at Indus Health, Mind on Clinic, and SPA-Delhi answers really important questions relating to the Mental Health issues prevalent in the times of Covid Duties. The Healthcare workers like Doctors, Paramedics, Nurses, Support Staff are at an increased risk of mental burnouts due to the high amount of physical and emotional stress they deal on an everyday basis. The questions answered are as follows: 1. How to manage the feeling of loneliness in Health care workers staying away from their families to avoid the risk of infecting them? 2. How best to perform in the midst of a challenging environment. How to cool off from the burnouts while working long hours? 3. Due to long working hours, a monotonous/ mechanical environment is created. What is the best method to deal with this? 4. How can Doctors separate emotions and work? Emotions of death, distress, helplessness around them in unprecedented volumes. 5. How can healthcare workers deal with giving false solace to patients to cheer them up when in fact the healthcare workers know that the patient won't get better or may even lose his/her life? How to deal with the morality around this? 6. How to overcome the guilt of not being able to handle and establish a balance between personal and professional life in healthcare workers. How to determine and draw a line between work and personal life/time? How to say no and be not guilty when we are personally down but duty calls? 7. How can we separate personal efficiency vs system challenges which hinder personal efficiency. 8. How to manage Health care workers feeling depressed and helpless due to lack of required supplies. 9. How to be ethical when the hospital administration admits a patient out of turn due to the political link, nepotism or any other pressure? 10. How to deal with thankless relatives of patients who blame the doctors for the death of the family member? How to prevent and get away with violence at workplaces. As a Service, Dr. Lovleen is available to all Healthcare Workers for Counseling Free of Cost. You can reach out to her at: loveleen(dot)multani(at)gmail(dot)com or Comment below and your query will be resolved. If you like this video, please make sure it reaches all the Doctors, Nurses, Medical Workers, Support Staff, and other Frontline Workers. Also, Please Subscribe to the Channel:    / architectrajasingh   to get regular video updates.