Kolkata: Mental health Senior citizens deteriorating whose children live abroad have become one of the largest collateral compensation of Covid-19.
Uncertainty can never be physically united due to restrictions on the current travel, the upcoming third wave tension, the fear that they might not be exhausted enough to travel abroad as soon as the world recovered from the pandemic taking great victims on them.
Epidemiology of Parnali Dhar Chowdhury University of Johns Hopkins in Washington DC has not been able to visit his parents in Kolkata for three years now.
The 69-year-old woman had to be hospitalized recently because she met her son who had met to get married in Europe during a pandemic in his absence.
“Without guarantees when he will be able to meet them again, he stops interacting with anyone and reaches the complete stage of mutism,” said Psychiatrist Jai Ranjan Ram.
The three-year-old Arun Datta pirase has lived in fear since it was a broken pandemic.
“I have a variety of comorbidity.
I am not afraid to die but with my two children abroad, I am worried about who will do my final right and take care of my aging family members here,” said Datta.
The wife of Kalpana Dutta was used for their sons living abroad for 20 years now.
“But the pandemic suddenly scared me.
What if I can’t see it anymore?” He asked.
Anuttama Banerjee psychologist noticed the sense of “releasing” between several parents.
“On the one hand, they really miss their children.
On the other hand, some are relieved that children are in a safer place and don’t want them to come back,” he said.
This cellphone is the only media communication for Darta Roy based in Massachusetts, Dutta Roy with his mother who was seriously unhealthy with Covid a few weeks ago.
Children and parents even enter the debate about this problem.
According to Banerjee, this could be a result of the death of unlimited young adults in the second wave.
“For parents, it doesn’t matter whether they get the best of treatment.
But their children should not suffer.
As if parents negotiate with the best by offering them there must be a choice,” he added.
The psychiatrist said the trauma of non-resident indians could not meet with their acute parents.
The virtual reunion on a misty cellphone screen is a painful reminder of helplessness on both sides.
Only a little, who lost parents during a pandemic, wrestled with fear of losing another while still far away.
“There was someone who tried to go back to Kolkata either because his mother used to live here alone.
But he expires before he can move.
Now, everything is of no use for him.
Along with the right process, there is an extraordinary feeling,” said Banerjee.
Until 2018, the epidemiology of Parnali Dhar Chowdhury from Johns Hopkins University was used to visit his parents in Kolkata twice a year.
“It’s been three years since I left.
My parents were treated at the hospital during the first wave of Covid.
However, I can’t go down.
My in-laws are also positive Covid.
When I was involved in Covid research in Hopkins and knew what to do, which Nearby I did not get my support.
It was difficult, “he said from Washington DC.
The Massachusetts Professional Depasish Dutta Roy could not go down to Kolkata a few weeks ago when his mother was truly unhealthy with Covid.
“I have never felt so helpless in 19 years living in the US.
The nature of the disease reduces the support sought,” he said.
Restrictions on trips during the second wave have forced a lot to resist their crolkata visits.
Some now suffer because of extraordinary emptiness when they see other people reunite abroad.
“This causes personal trauma that cannot be explained.
Many suffer from guilt leaving parents when needed and wondering whether they can release responsibility to become a good child,” Ram said.
Apart from the international travel challenge, Aparajita Dutta-based Louisiana returned to Kolkata for his parents this April.
“I spent the night without sleep dealing with guilt because it didn’t give the same privilege to my parents and my aunt I got in the US.
The community of old parents who were sick with children living abroad needing a set-up Organized to help them in trouble, “he said.
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