Covid crisis: Companies, counsellors helping professionals deal with grief
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The number of working people reaching out to inhouse counsellors, or independent mental health service providers such as Optum, InnerHour, and 1to1help.net have multiplied in recent weeks as they struggle to deal with deaths and serious infections in the family and among close friends and colleagues, many of them young people.
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Several companies have signed up with mental health service providers in the past few weeks.
The enormity of the Covid healthcare crisis and fatalities among working professionals as well as their families and friends are prompting organisations to offer mental health counselling assistance to help staff deal with unprecedented levels of grief, trauma and anxiety.
Morning Brief (ET Bureau) HR Management: What more can companies do for their employees health amid the raging COVID second wave
Rachita Prasad | 29:04 Min | April 27, 2021, 8:03 AM IST
Amid the raging second wave of the pandemic, some companies are trying to ensure the wellbeing of their employees by helping them get beds at hospitals, critical medicines and oxygen, among other things. Meeta Gangrade, COO at 1To1Help, and ET’s Rica Bhattacharyya tell us what more they can do. Also: tips on managing anxiety from psychotherapist Meghna Mukherjee.
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Pandemic blues: Rise in cases of anxiety and depression
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The perceived fear of a second wave, chronic fatigue, not getting time off from work, minimal social interactions and even worries around the vaccine are driving a spike in cases of anxiety and depression by 55-100% in recent weeks, said mental healthcare professionals ET spoke to.
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KOLKATA: The year-end, normally associated with holidays, festivities and merrymaking, is seeing an unprecedented rise in pandemic blues in these Covid times, as many fear that 2021 is not about to bring any immediate respite.
The perceived fear of a second wave, chronic fatigue, not getting time off from work, minimal social interactions and even worries around the vaccine are driving a spike in cases of anxiety and depression by 55-100% in recent weeks, said mental healthcare professionals ET spoke to.