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Picture used for representational purpose only VADODARA: Fifteen-year-old Rittam Shah (name changed) came out with hands oozing with blood, leaving his parents shell-shocked. Thinking that the boy must have injured himself with a sharp object, the parents got him treated but were aghast when they later took him to a counsellor too. The counsellor told them that he was depressed due to Covid-induced self-isolation and had actually inflicted the injury on himself. Introvert by nature, Rittam even had to prodded at school by his friends to start a conversation. Over the last one year, he hardly met his friends and spent most of his time in his room as he is a single child. ....
Retail businesses and markets are the first in line for closures when crowd control measures are imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19. Hit not just ....
Retail businesses and markets are the first in line for closures when crowd control measures are imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19. Hit not just ....
Retail businesses and markets are the first in line for closures when crowd control measures are imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19. Hit not just ....
The Covid-19 induced lockdown triggered a spate of pyschological problems among people, who suddenly got disconnected with the outside world. The psychology department of Saurashtra University handled as many as 45,000 calls from all over Gujarat in the last one year with people pouring their hearts out to the counsellors about their extreme state of mind. Four professors of the department have compiled the serious and extreme cases with possible remedies in a 400 page book that will be distributed free of cost to the Abhayam helplines, counsellors, universities and libraries. The book has been prepared by Yogesh Jogsan, Dhara Doshi, Dimple Ramani Hasmukh Chavda and two students. They said the book will come handy for people in dealing with such an unprecedented crisis, reports Nimesh Khakhariya in Rajkot ....