Express News Service
CHENNAI: The sudden demise of her doting grandfather due to Covid-19 infection last December still haunts S Ananya, an eight-year-old girl. Traumatised ever since, the happy-go-lucky girl has now gone completely silent. The toll it took on her mental health is so devastating that she is now afraid of going even to her terrace. Whenever her parents are about to step out, she begins weeping inconsolably and pleads them to stay home.
Her mother Sangeetha is concerned about the girl’s behavioural change. “It has become difficult for us to deal with her. Even if I have to go out to buy vegetables, she starts crying and pleads me not to step out. She says I would also die like her grandfather if I stepped out. It is painful to see my kid so terrified,” she says. Ananya’s parents have sought help from a psychologist who visits her for counselling.