BENGALURU: It was meant to be a routine call. One of the thousands made by a mental health professional in Karnataka, to empathize and provide care and counselling to a person suspected to be infected with the novel coronavirus. “But this person seemed to be in distress and unsettled," she said.
For the next two days, the Bengaluru-based psychiatrist, who can’t be named, thought of ways to counsel the person in distress over telephone, who was in the isolation ward of a hospital. “I was thinking how I could help this person cope better with this new challenge," she said.
Several people who have landed in isolation wards are jetlagged, sleep deprived and bone tired. The person, mentioned above, was given supportive psychotherapy,