Treating Pandemic–Related Emotional Distress

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, research identified an assortment of emotional well-being implications that have been experienced during the pandemic response. Some of these outcomes included stress, sadness, anxiety, panic, hopelessness, disappointment, grief, battles with self-destructive ideation and conduct, insomnia, irritability, emotionalemotional exhaustion, depression, and traumatic stress. Albeit the effect of COVID-19 is individual-specific and depends on severalvariables (for example the length of isolation, risk factors, injury history, emotional wellness history, and so on), a few patterns in psychological effects have started to arise across populations. This section focuses on the essential psychological skills which should be developed by the responders.