Document Type
Article
Department (Manual Entry)
Health and Physical Education Department
Abstract
India enforced one of the world’s largest lockdowns in the last quarter of March 2020 to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This commentary focuses on the mental health implications of the ongoing pandemic as well as the lockdown that lasted for more than two months and is still in place in certain areas. Whereas loneliness, stress, anxiety, and depression have been widespread, vulnerable sections of the population, including daily wage workers, migrant laborers, religious minorities, women and children, and the elderly, have been facing various forms of economic, sociopolitical, and familial stigma, racism, and violence. By and large, the COVID-19 pandemic has widened all forms of societal disparities in India.
Citation
Mukherjee, S. (2020). Disparities, desperation, and divisiveness: Coping with COVID-19 in India. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(6), 582-584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000682
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000682