Vadodara: Fifteen-year-old Rittam Shah (name changed) out with the hands flowing with blood, making his parents surprised.
Thinking that the boy must have hurt himself with sharp objects, parents made him treat but shocked when they then took him to the counselor too.
The counselor told them that he was depressed due to covid self-induced isolation and truly gave himself in his own injury.
Introverts basically, Rittam even had to be encouraged at school by his friends to start a conversation.
Over the past year, he barely met his friends and spent most of his time in his room because he was the only child.
“All of this caused anxiety and the boy could not even vent it.
So, the boy caused a wound on himself.
That is the way to ask for help,” said Dr.
Jalnidhi Nanavati, son and teenager, told TII.
Dr.
Nanavati further said that many cases of teenagers facing depression and anxiety because Covid’s restrictions had emerged lately.
Children’s psychiatrists and counselors say that children and adolescents are socializing with friends at school or at a sports club.
But for more than a year now, they have not been able to socialize freely leading to depression between them.
“They feel numb and vent their feelings, sometimes children cause pain in themselves because they don’t have anyone to talk to.
I get at least three cases like that every week where teenagers are wounded or sometimes – Sometimes trying to commit suicide, “said right of Parikh, a professional advisor.
Addicted to Dhaval Gokani (NAME) Rajkot who was 18 years old and another gadget during locking made him suffer from bipolar disorder due to lack of sleep.
The teenager became very aggressive so that one day he even attacked his father.
Dr.
Chetan Hansalia, a psychiatrist based in Rajkot said, “The boy was put into treatment for three weeks.
Many teenagers have become aggressive because they cannot socialize with friends during a pandemic.” Letter-based psychiatrist, Dr.
Mayak Agrawal, said He treats a 14-year-old girl who becomes very addicted to Instagram that he starts skipping classes to be in the application all the time.
“Gradually, he began to lose his emotions if his picture did not get enough like and once also consumed the phenyl in anger!” she says.
(With input from Jay Pachchchigar and Nimesh Khakhariya)