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Express News Service BENGALURU:  The second wave of Covid- 19 is like a “tsunami” and has “compounded the sense of fear and despair among the people,” according to Dr Pratima Murthy, professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru. “People with Covid-19 also need to be evaluated for neuropsychiatric symptoms and provided follow- up support. Those with substance use disorders need special attention, particularly for withdrawal management and relapse prevention,” she pointed out. Given the surge in infections in the second wave, entire families getting infected, constant bombardment with news about the lack of hospital beds, oxygen and medical care, the “sense of helplessness, anger and despair is ever more in the current wave than the previous one,” said the leading NIMHANS psychiatrist. “A constant exposure to haunting images of people denied oxygen, undying funeral pyres are so deep

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