Rise In Depression, Insomnia Cases Due To Covid-Related Trauma: Experts

Medical experts concurred that family members were unable to grieve together after losing their dear ones to Covid due to safety constraints and social distancing norms.

Inability to mourn with family members or cope with grief alone due to Covid constraints has led to an increase in cases of depression, anxiety, insomnia and other mental health disorders among people in Delhi who have been affected directly or indirectly by the pandemic, experts said. Several hospitals and clinics in the national capital are registering a spike in the number of patients complaining of symptoms related to psychological ailments triggered by post-traumatic stress, they said. Delhi had reeled under a brutal second wave of the pandemic which claimed a massive number of lives daily, with the oxygen supply shortage issue at various hospitals, having added to the problems. Hospital premises and crematoriums had witnessed distressful scenes, with grieving family members, many in full PPE kits, trying to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones.