scholarly journals Love in the time of Corona

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-523
Author(s):  
David Alchin ◽  
Loyola McLean ◽  
Anthony Korner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
To Come ◽  
Health Complications ◽  
Second Wave

Objective: As the world struggles to come to terms with “corona,” we find our collective experience to be entirely alien, struggling to find meaning in the forms of feeling being evoked. When words cannot provide meaning to experience, metaphor is often utilized. Conclusions: Words like “love” are informed autobiographically as “growing words,” with no rules defining their use. The significance of “love” to an individual is created through personal history, such that sophisticated understanding is only constructed following a lifetime of experience. “Corona” is perhaps a growing word; we cannot yet grasp its meaning in the face of cólera (passion) and pati (suffering) informing our collective traumatic script. Psychiatrists should aim to focus on the positive forms of feeling emerging during the pandemic, in order to be better equipped to meet the impending “second wave” of mental health complications.

scholarly journals The Hierarchy of Walking Needs and the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7461
Author(s):  
Mohammad Paydar ◽  
Asal Kamani Fard
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
Different Levels

More than 150 cities around the world have expanded emergency cycling and walking infrastructure to increase their resilience in the face of the COVID 19 pandemic. This tendency toward walking has led it to becoming the predominant daily mode of transport that also contributes to significant changes in the relationships between the hierarchy of walking needs and walking behaviour. These changes need to be addressed in order to increase the resilience of walking environments in the face of such a pandemic. This study was designed as a theoretical and empirical literature review seeking to improve the walking behaviour in relation to the hierarchy of walking needs within the current context of COVID-19. Accordingly, the interrelationship between the main aspects relating to walking-in the context of the pandemic- and the different levels in the hierarchy of walking needs were discussed. Results are presented in five sections of “density, crowding and stress during walking”, “sense of comfort/discomfort and stress in regard to crowded spaces during walking experiences”, “crowded spaces as insecure public spaces and the contribution of the type of urban configuration”, “role of motivational/restorative factors during walking trips to reduce the overload of stress and improve mental health”, and “urban design interventions on arrangement of visual sequences during walking”.

scholarly journals Epidemiological perspectives of COVID-19 in Telangana and India: a descriptive study design

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1817
Author(s):  
Amruta Barhate ◽  
Prakash Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Second Wave

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world to come to a standstill. What started as on 16th March 2020, as 114 confirmed cases of COVID‑19 in the country has now reached worrisome figures. The latest world scenario as per WHO as on 30th November, 2020 is as under-World data: 62,509,444 cases, deaths: 1,458,782; USA: 13,082,877 cases, deaths: 263,946; India: 9,431,691 cases, deaths 137, 139. It is evident that worldwide India is number two in case load and there’s no reason to prevent India from becoming number one unless appropriate corrective steps are taken.Methods: The present study has looked into various data sources available in public domain. The study covered a period of almost nine months i.e., from March 2020 to November 2020. The study revealed a steady increase in the number of COVID-19 cases from March 2020 with peak of pandemic occurring in the mid of September and then a steady decline of cases from October.Results: The data analysis shows that after peaking of cases in September, the epidemic will decline in a phased manner by the end of March 2021. Even though there is a decline seen from the month of October, spike of COVID-19 cases was seen in November in some of the states of India. Therefore, we can’t deny the possibility of a second wave of pandemic to occur in the month of December 2020 and January 2021.Conclusions: Hence appropriate and strict control measures have to be put in place for effective control of the Pandemic and its resurgence.

scholarly journals Social isolation and quarantine in the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on mental health and quality of population life

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e30510212535
Author(s):  
Gabriel Kiaro Leite Nunes ◽  
Karinne Alice Santos de Araújo ◽  
Thais Ranielle Souza de Oliveira ◽  
Marcelina da Conceição Botelho Teixeira ◽  
Ieler Ferreira Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Definitive Treatment ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about major changes in the lifestyle of the world population. Due to the lack of vaccines or a definitive treatment for disease, governments around the world have adopted social isolation and quarantine as methods to control the spread of the virus. Objective: Thus, the objective of this study was to discuss how social isolation and quarantine periods affected people's mental health and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An integrative literature review was carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic between March and September 2020, establishing the following guiding question: How did social isolation and quarantine affect the mental health and quality of life of the population in the COVID-19 pandemic? Results: The final sample consisted of nineteen (19) articles, two (2) addressed depression during the pandemic period, three (3) presented the pandemic and the relationship with sociodemographic aspects, five (5) analyzed mental health in the pandemic, four (4) reported the impact of COVID-19 on the population's style and quality of life and the last five (5) demonstrated the quality of human relationships and emotional aspects in the face of the pandemic. Conclusion: It was demonstrated that isolation and the quarantine period had a negative impact on the population's quality of life and long-term mental health.

scholarly journals Truthmaking and the world-time parallel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gareth Leniston-Lee
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Parallel Argument ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Structural Parallel ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

<p>There is a close structural parallel between the way we talk about time and the way we talk about modality (i.e. matters of possibility, necessity, actuality etc.). A consequence of this is that whenever we construct a metaphysical argument within one of these domains, there is a parallel argument to be made in the other. On the face of it, this parallel between possible worlds and moments in time seems to commit us to holding corresponding attitudes to the ontological status of non-present and non-actual entities.  In this thesis I assess a claim made by Sider (2001: 41-42) that truthmaking – the idea that truth is grounded in existence – provides a way to avoid the commitment to ontological symmetry that this world-time parallel seems to foist upon us. Truthmaking challenges presentists, who deny the existence of past entities and actualists, who deny the existence of merely possible entities, to come up with a way of grounding truths that are ostensively about the events and entities that they deny exist. Sider’s claim can be broken down into three propositions:  1. Truthmaking provides reason to reject presentism. 2. Truthmaking does not provide reason to reject actualism. 3. Truthmaking breaks the ontological symmetry between time and modality.  In this thesis I argue that while 1 is false, 3 remains true. While I am not a presentist myself I do not think that truthmaking provides a sound basis for rejecting the position. Much of this thesis is dedicated to defending presentism against the challenge truthmaking poses. I also don’t believe that truthmaking undermines actualism, but do not commit myself to any particular actualist response to the truthmaking challenge in this thesis. My central aim is to show that the presentist has a viable response to the truthmaking challenge and that this response does not have a viable parallel in the modal case. So while I think that both presentists and actualists can provide adequate responses to the challenge truthmaking poses, truthmaking still breaks the symmetry because the arguments made in defence of each position are very different. So one might rationally accept one argument but not the other.</p>

Effect on Mental Health Due to COVID 19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1745-1749
Author(s):  
Akshay Shrama ◽  
Sunil Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Delay Testing ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Mental Load ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Second Wave

Corona has been a major cause of psychological, mental health all over affecting billions of people affecting mental abilities creating panic all over the world. China suffered first than this virus spread to more than 180countries. Although it’s a new virus but has caused tremendous mortality, morbidity also affecting the mental health of a person and people are getting more panic which has shown to delay recovery also delay testing due to fear of corona increases the disease severity involving lungs which are a major concern for death among many. Mental health is wealth staying positive in any situation is the key to fight any illness. Moral of a person should be high to defeat such diseases. It has already affected thousands of civilians. Dealing with mental health is a major issue in today’s date as recovery is getting delayed due to mental load taken all over. Happiness is key to tackle and fight any situation of life, be it infection or any other issues. Through this article aiming to tackle corona by creating positivity and spreading awareness that no need to panic but to stay happy taking precautions and keeping once own care .life is precious and depression in life should have no role in it. Together we will win. Ray of hope ray of positivity is all needed in this time. More than 91 lakhs cases in India still chances the second wave may come many have been jobless, many lost their beloved ones all over negative energy is spreading proper concealing, awareness regarding mental health is a must.

I and II Esdras

1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Times

I and II Esdras is Volume 42 in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, each by a preeminent scholar. Jacob M. Myers is Professor of Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg and the author of three earlier volumes in the series: I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra, Nehemiah. The present work constitutes the first English commentary on I Esdras in sixty years and the first on II Esdras in forty. Written about 10 BCE, I Esdras is a history ranging from the pious reign of Josiah to the religious reforms of Ezra. For this period Josephus follows I Esdras in his Antiquities of the Jews. An apocalyptic work, written 250 years later, II Esdras seeks to offer strength, courage, and hope to those whose faith was severely shaken in the gloom and despondency that followed upon the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Its chief purpose was to inspire trust in God and the ultimate triumph of righteousness, if not in this world, then in the world to come. “Tracts for the times such as II Esdras,” writes Dr. Myers in his preface, “have a message for us who in a revolutionary age are obsessed with the impatience reflected by Ezra; it was not that he lacked faith in God but that he, like Job, questioned his ways and the delay, perhaps seeming inactivity, in the face of what appeared to the prophet to be terrible urgencies. The questions posed are still asked in the context of our age.” Eight photographs of ancient Near Eastern sculpture and coins help the reader visualize both the events recounted in I Esdras and the apocalyptic imagery in II Esdras. Each book has its own introduction and bibliography.

scholarly journals KESABARAN DAN KESEHATAN MENTAL DALAM BIMBINGAN KONSELING ISLAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-272
Author(s):  
Najamuddin Najamuddin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Islamic View ◽  
Society Today

Every human must be able to balance between intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is measured of the ability to control the emotion and to refrain. In Islam, the ability of controlling the emotion and patience are mentioned the patience. Patience demands patience in the face of something difficult, heavy, and bitter, to be accepted and faced with full responsibility. Nowadays, patience is understood by many people to aim toward passive nature of patience, in meaning of resigning does not do anything when faced with problems. While in Islamic view, patience means to be strong, to stand firm, or not to despair when facing obstacles, and to keep trying maximally. In addition, someone’s mental health is the ability to adjust to the circumstances encountered, can utilize all the potential and talent as much as possible and bring to the harmony in life must also be considered. Meanwhile, Islamic counseling is a process of providing assistance to individuals to realize again its existence as a creature of God who should live in harmony with the provisions and instructions of God so as to achieve happiness in the world and in the afterlife. Urgency of preaching with the concept of patience that preaching can help clarify and illuminate the mad'u about how patience is consistent with the Qur'an and hadist. The existing of preaching is so that the mistake in understanding the patience can be reduced. The problematic society today is not only about material issues, but also about psychological problems. So, between patience, mental health and counseling Islam must be framed in preaching.

scholarly journals Spaces of Life: Transgressions in Conceptualising the World Class University

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen ◽  
Carl Mika ◽  
Rikke Toft Nørgård
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
World Class ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Times ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University

AbstractBeyond knowledge, critical thinking, new ideas, rigorous science and scholarly development, this chapter argues for the university as a space of life. Through the complexities and incommensurabilities of academic life, and drawing on Julia Kristeva’s notion of revolt, Emmanuel Levinas’ notion of Otherness, and Novalis’ concept of Romantisierung, it makes a philosophical argument for recognizing what might appear as uncomfortable transgressions of the marketable, measurable characteristics of World Class Universities. In various ways, the chapter asks where there is space, in the World Class University, for elements which may not overtly align with the neoliberal clamour for international recognition and esteem. In elevating everyday life in the university, the chapter blurs boundaries of the celebrated, strived for rankings with the spaces of life that are dark and heterotopic, messily entangled with histories, polyphonic human and more than human voice, beings and energies, within the university. Revolt provokes a re-turn to re-question the ethics and boundaries of treatments of ‘world’ and ‘class’ in conceptions of the World Class University. Here, ‘World Class University’ is not necessarily a globally streamlined and internationally bench-marked institution, flexing its socio-economic muscles in the face of the world. Instead, it is an institution that speaks for others who have been made silent and deprived of their own critical voice. It speaks for the suppressed and marginalized, and it speaks for the ones who are no longer with us, or who have not yet arrived. It speaks for the people and the times yet to come.

scholarly journals Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Mary Gobbi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
The World ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Remote Learning

Since the last edition of the Journal, six months ago, the world has experienced not only the first wave of COVID 19, but for many countries they are now in the grip of the second wave. Universities in both hemispheres have returned to new semesters, with students experiencing more ‘online’ learning, outbreaks of COVID in university or local residences. The psychological and mental health consequences of no longer being able to live life in ‘close proximity’ means that our students have missed social events that formerly were an integral part of university enculturation. The acceleration of distance, virtual and other forms of ‘remote’ learning has provided an overnight transformation of the academy, with Faculty staff learning new skills and a new vocabulary as the curricula are reformed and reframed out of necessity.

scholarly journals Waves of mental health Demands during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Jorge Sant´Ana Honorato ◽  
André Luiz Machado das Neves ◽  
Munique Therense ◽  
Gizelly de Carvalho Martins ◽  
Vivian Silva Lima Marangoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Demands ◽  
To Come

Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic is playing a significant role in public health policies around the world. Mental health is one. Either in supporting the maintenance of isolation or dealing with demands, which may come from the general population and health professionals. This work presents a compilation of data obtained by clinical psychologists during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. Through searches on social media with #Covid19 and #MentalHealth and the exchange of information on networks of professionals, it was possible to compile and group the main psychological symptoms presented during isolation. Information was clustered according to the period it appeared, in order to guide future situations. Moreover, to prepare a group of clinical psychologists to provide online assistance. Prevention must be the key to deal with the mental health catastrophe that there is to come.

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