Mental Health Issues Stemming from

Covid-19
Prepared by: Kimberly Gale A. Blanza
Zoom fatigue
Research at Stanford identified four reasons for this
particular type of fatigue:

1. excessive eye contact at a close proximity

2. seeing oneself on video for long periods
3. the inability to move around during a meeting
4. higher cognitive load
• lack of “synchrony” causes an unconscious overworking of
the brain to try to synchronize communication— your brain
ends up working overtime to read the other person’s
expressions and behavior.
Languishing
• The term was reportedly coined by sociologist Corey Keyes.
• Described as a 'blah' feeling, languishing is marked by a
lack of focus or drive to do anything.
• It is different from burnout and depression; individuals
have reported aimlessness and joylessness.
• “Languishing encompasses distressing feelings of
stagnation, monotony, and emptiness,” says Dr. Leela R.
Magavi
Adam Grant explains the term coined Languishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OL5wvQwTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xof0t07AVDc
How To Cope With Languishing
• The remedy to languishing is reportedly maintaining a flow
and immersed interest in one's tasks, in an attempt to beat
indifference.

• Grant suggests that individuals should give themselves

uninterrupted time to finish tasks, and focus on small goals
to this end
• Take time off when possible
• Give yourself permission to enjoy
• Change your scenery
• cognitive behavioral therapy 
• list things they are thankful for physically, emotionally, and
spiritually every morning and evening, especially when
lonely or sad
Grief
Individuals are feeling many different kinds of grief at the
same time
Losing love ones
financial losses
extreme changes
feeling of an uncertain future
Coping Processes on Grief
• accepting and understanding
• trying to achieve a balance in thoughts 
• reminding oneself that the pandemic, however long drawn,
is still temporary
• identifying and naming what you're feeling
Compassion fatigue
• An issue frequently reported by people in healthcare and
counselors and psychologists, compassion fatigue is
exhaustion from caring — a cost of being compassionate
• It causes burnout and secondary traumatic stress
• It leads to a lack of appetite, an inability to sleep and go
about one's everyday tasks.
Coping with Compassion Fatigue
• experts recommend monitoring the amount of information
one consumes
• drawing clear boundaries about what you can and cannot
do
• and institutional training on resilience building for those
who are high-risk individuals
Doomscrolling
• "the compulsive need to try and get answers when we’re
afraid," as one BBC report
• It involves endlessly scrolling on social media and through
news, especially bad news.
• Users have also reported 'pleasure' associated with this act,
of having read something dreadful while within the comfort
of their secure homes.
Tips to avoid doomscrolling
• Experts suggest keeping track of the amount of time spent
on social media and while trawling through the news
• putting reminders to put one's phone off,
• and pledging to put away one's phone for certain periods of
time.
Revenge bedtime procrastination
• Reportedly a term coined in China, revenge bedtime
procrastination is eating into people's sleep as they try to
reclaim free time from their days by staying up for longer.
• reported not wanting to go to bed after a long, tiring day at
work, instead wanting to be on their phones, scrolling
through social media or articles, or doing equally mundane
things.
References
• https://www.firstpost.com/
• https://ambimat.com/
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/