EDITOR’S NOTE: JASMINA SIDEROVSKI The year that stopped the world!!
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here isn’t one of us who will ever forget the year 2020 – The year that made history for all the wrong reasons. The year that stole our freedom, our normal, our self-confidence, and forced us all to take a break from our routine, business, and dreams. The year that divided us all. Each of us creates goals—an incentive for a sense of achievement. Amongst the chaos chasing our dreams, our purpose, our passion, and our identity, we find ourselves caught up in the madness for innovation, technology, business, fashion, entertainment, travel, adventure and a never-ending need for self – growth. We are accustomed to life-happens we forgot the real reason we are here on this earth. History has taught us about the milestones of each Century, events that have shaped our future, and lessons learned along the way. It has enforced change, opportunity and mastered science beyond our comprehension. We have taken a leaf from the giants of philosophy, our mentors and the heroes along the way. We have made things bigger and better, faster and more economical. We have selfdriving electric cars, social media, Bluetooth and fibre optics have brought the world closer than ever. We are presented with the social and economic challenges for low carbon energy, climate change, sustainability, plastic pollution, deforestation, economic growth, manufacturing, education, gender equality, air pollution, global health, to name a few.
even among generations have been widened, and risk for common mental illness among lower socioeconomic groups has skyrocketed.
Social changes in the 21st Century have made little change in attitudes and behaviours toward mental illness in low-income countries. ... Poverty levels have increased, cultural differences
COVID-19 has taught us how our life perspective changes in a second. A societal encounter with mortality has shaped the transformation of the life of society. And, now it has given
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