MENTAL

HEALTH IN
QUARANTINE
Rodríguez Guerrero Abigail
Background
▪ On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health
Commission, reports a rare number of cases of atypical
pneumonia in the city caused by a new coronavirus.

▪ On March 11, 2020, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, the managing

director of the World Health Organization, classifies the new
Covid-19 as a pandemic.

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 México: Covid-19
▪ The first case of covid-19 in México, was detected on
February 27, 2020. After this record, in the next 64 days,
there was an exponential growth in contagions. The
number rose to 19,224 active cases.
▪ The US National Library of Medicine, has spoken about the
similarity in the number of confirmed cases between
Mexico and China. Mexico has a higher mortality rate.

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QUARANTINE
IN MEXICO
 Repercussions of the
quarantine in Mexico
The quarantine officially began on March 20, 2020.
Some companies and schools stopped their activities a
week before.

We know the economic impact that the pandemic has

caused in México:
• Bankruptcy of local and small businesses.
• Unemployment: the rate reached more than
25% of the total population at the end of last
year, that is approximately 6 million
unemployed people.

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But, what I really want to talk about is…

HOW DOES
QUARANTINE AFFECTS
OUR MENTAL
HEALTH?
 PRAXIS THEORY

Feeling of Be autonomous Goals

freedom
Calm, serene and Own evaluative and Approach and
happy. normative ideology. fulfillment of
aspirations.

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 What is damaging our mental health?

Fake news Fear Changes Abusive environments

There are a lot of fake Fear that ourselves, If people can or can’t A lot of people live with
news: nobody survive, family or friends will be stay in home, not seeing abusive and dangerous
hospitals kill people, the infected, as well as fear family and friends, people and, before the
pandemic is not going of the possibility of being alone, not going quarantine, being out of
to end. death. to school or work… their houses was a relief.
What do they do now?

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Facts
▪ Feeling fear, stress or worried are normal responses when there are a lot of
changes, but if it starts to affect your activities, you have to do something about it.
▪ According to Carmen Fernández, general director of the Youth Integration Centers,
young people have suffered a huge impact during the confinement. “Suicidal risk is
increasing... 43% of suicide cases are of young people between 15 and 29 years
old”.
▪ In Mexico, every 40 seconds, a person commits suicide. 8 out of 10 are men. The
other 2 are women.

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How to prevent
There are a lot of things we can do to prevent suicide and
other mental illness, such as:
1. Identify your own, your family or friends symptoms
(feeling down all the time, losing interest, sleeping a
lot, not sleeping, eating a lot, not eating…).
2. Talk about the way you feel with somebody that you
trust or be the one the others can trust.
3. Queretaro’s government has a program that gives
phycologist attention for free. You can find it in
https://apoyo-psicologico.mx/ or call 442-101-52-02
4. UAQ has other program called UAPI ONLINE thar also
offers phycologic help for free. You can find it in
uapi@uaq.mx

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And remember…

You are not alone

You are need
You are loved