COVER STORY
COVER STORY
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING To state that 2020 has been a testing year would be an understatement. In these uncertain times, ensuring emotional well-being and coping with stress has assumed greater importance than ever before. There are a number of ways people are coping with stress and the myriad challenges thrown at us by this ongoing crisis. We spoke to LTTS-ites spread across geos to capture their perspectives and viewpoints on three key challenges that we are all facing: Coping with the pandemic, emotional well-being and working from home. Yehuda Brody, Israel Coping with the Pandemic The current situation isn't simple and demands a lot from each of us, but I'm finding that spending time with my family at home every evening and volunteering in the community gives me the energy to push forward. Emotional well-being Most people have been stressed in the past few months and I have friends and colleagues who have been hit both physically and financially due to these times. I can see the change in their behavior. It's very important to keep an open eye and give a (remote) hand, financial aid and most importantly a kind word to people who need it. As an active medic I treat all sorts of sick people. I believe many people lack the understanding of mental illness. The same way someone can have a heart attack, one can also have a chemical imbalance in their brain and suddenly they are not themselves, and this can be triggered by major or minor incidents, depending on the person. Mental illness can be very painful for the the patient's family, it’s important to respect and treat a mentally ill person with the same compassion and understanding we have for a physically ill person.
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