If you're struggling to cope with isolation, feeling alone, like there's no hope or end in sight, you're not alone. The world is in a crisis and every non-essential worker in the UAE is required to stay home to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
While this is essential and necessary to do, to ensure the health of the emirates, it can also have adverse effects on people's mental health.
We spoke to Dr. Christina Burmeister, clinical counsellor at Mediclinic City Hospital, about what the effects are, and how we can make sure we're looking after ourselves in this time. Isolation is important for everyone at the moment but what are the psychological ramifications?As humans we are hard-wired to be around other humans.