Published Paper Details:

In addition to the serious physical and medical effects on individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a short and long term psycho- social consequences. It has induced many psychiatric individual and collective problems such as stress, PTSD, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, psychosis, OCD, bipolar disorder, insomnia, fear, suicidal thoughts etc. There was a significant increase of psychological distress and symptoms of mental illness and worsening of quality of sleep in the general population. Understanding them helps clinicians to evaluate the issue when called upon also to manage stress faced by frontline medical staff. The study showed that level of depression, anxiety, stress differ in accordance with gender, age, education and professional status across the globe. For successful fighting with present and future pandemics we have to learn more about psychiatric and psychological aspects of COVID-19 from the perspective of public and global mental health. Our article aims to present a review on all the possible impacts of COVID 19 on mental health.