Hyderabad: Pandemic has made everyday life running in Teightrope for parents and children.
With the signature of childhood – playing and running – discarded by Covid-19, parents who have been stressed, struggling to overcome their own changing lives find it difficult to hold their children thrown into the vortex of emotion, with little or Not a shop.
Used anxiety, difficulty sleeping and in some cases even depression slowly becomes part of everyday life of several children.
For the 9-year-old Shweta (the name changed on request), it was difficult to sleep and anger was his new friend since the last year.
The trip to a psychologist revealed to his parents who were depressed so he suffered anxiety.
As for the 8 year old, someone who is not interested in everything and switches the mood is triggered by a high level of stress in the family.
Children between the ages of 8 and 13 have been affected by the most with the closure of a sudden natural life.
And how to keep children physically safe from Covid while keeping them healthy mentally become a daily challenge for families.
Without a sure solution, experts suggest that children meet and play in controlled groups can be one way out.
“At first the old man itself was unclear how to overcome it.
It was handed over to the child’s imagination and they began to take positive and negative on what had happened based on their abilities.
There were no parents who sat children and explained how they were.
All family dynamics changed, which leads to a high stress level, “said Dr.
Bharat Reddy, a psychiatric consultant, Asha Hospital.
Also, with many families who lost loved ones in the second wave, many developed fears that were also rubbed in small children.
“In addition to taking one of the most important things for children, who come out and play, the pandemic causes them to be constantly exposed to fear and anxiety.
Information entering the house, uncertainty, all affect them too.
Also, the whole environment becomes very cold and impersonal For children.
Otherwise, on a normal day at school, a child gets a lot of sensory input from teachers and friends.
The feeling of warmth has disappeared, “said Dr.
Vasuprada Kartik, counselor and psychotherapist, who had seen around 10 cases like that This new one.