Many South Africans are likely to be vulnerable and traumatised by the Covid-19 pandemic due to the negative impact it has had on peoples lives, a Gauteng psychiatrist says.
“The fallout brought about by the pandemic has resulted in additional potential for traumatic experience, including the stress if a loved one becomes ill and needs hospitalisation, having to live in isolation from your extended family and friends, or having a relationship fail under the strain caused by uncertainty and fear," said Dr Marshinee Naidoo, a psychiatrist at Akeso Alberton mental health facility.
“However, a sizable number of people, between 18 percent and 25 percent, experience severe ongoing symptoms in the months or even years following such an event or period of trauma. "We will therefore need to pay much greater attention to this condition as a nation going forward,” she said. Naidoo said other individuals who may be at high risk of PTSD are those who are continually exposed to ongoing traumatic situations in their line of work, such as paramedics, nurses and other healthcare workers on the frontline of the pandemic.
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