Really important you stay in today with information both of are important that you take regular breaks so go outside if its safe to do so go into your garden and do some gardening if its safe to do so also Something Else that you enjoy doing recognize that there are only one or 2 hours in a day that you will allow yourself to locate with a news screen on your phone outside of that you need to think about other things and the coronavirus it may feel like youre losing control with your Mental Health but you can take control by having a clear structure to your day and allowing worry over me at certain times. Some tips there from dr i me a card on pricing self can join this time a kind of virus ever pandemic has plunged the entire world into a state of uncertainty that is taking a toll on people with existing Mental Health conditions as many and a sickness i shouldnt Financial Hardship and information overload it is like each other quite says i feel me ok and today on the string we will assess the impact of the crime of violence i am Mental Health you can send your questions your comments your concerns 5 each in fact expert panel. People who experience things a depression or forms of trauma may notice that theres an. Increase in especially because there is more social isolation routines are being disrupted and maybe there isnt as much more patient to take care of oneself were engaged in basic health care there are so many downstream effects that were seeing right now because of a coven 19 pandemic and from a psychiatrist said point i think about the fact that on inpatient units we cant have Group Therapy for our patients because of social distancing and keeping them safe while there are then that limits the effect of ness of the therapeutic milieu long periods of a solution and i cant have that strong impact on mental causing emotional disease like cancer deep depression. Or. Short years or seeing in terms of dramatic stress disorder but at the same time to situation can give the chance to rethink our way our relationship with time and we specialise and with the strong values. Some valuable insights from 3 Mental HealthExperts Joining us now on the program we have dr jose luis are you sumi tell us he is the director of the World Health OrganizationsCollaborative Center for Mental HealthServices Research and training at the university of timer of madrid hes also the chairman of the department of psychiatry at the princess a University Hospital in madrid in london and darius compass is a social psychologist alan neuroscientist hes also a lecturer at City University of london and in mumbai or day size a clinical psychologist and coauthor of the book the coronavirus what you need to know about the Global Pandemic thank you for being here as we tackle such an important issue you may hear and they are jose the moments that i told our audience what we were going to be talking about just some just saying watch the show in a few minutes time this is the kind of reaction that i got so mad dean says here on twitter everything is disorientating right now including something simple like the passage of time its hard to know what to feel or what one should feel and then one more just just a reaction to us talking about this today steve and steve is in the u. K. Is i think were all going to be different after this the longer it goes on if you know what i mean. Do you know what steve means. Absolutely are from you thanks for having me on the show to begin with i think the world has never seen a crisis like this before the wires is still unknown in many ways tore the files and weve discovered in one of voted by the impact its having on the spread is calling for caustic measures across the world and a lot of places including in india where on the lock down and people know that from one side to the other of this things are going to be different and its up to us how we come together not physically but socially to fight see over yes its not the same all 3 of you are not down situations that weve got to end dress and dress what are the kind of stories that youre seeing where people are exhibiting stresses in terms of their Mental Health just give us one example well i think oh today its up a student and shares an International Student and shes wondering whether she should go or to see her parents or coach in your studies she said afraid that if she goes to stay for 2 days and counting so thats very unpleasant but if she stays and lumber then she does not if her parents get sick can should reach them in time can she help them support them so i think theyre very you very unusual decision that we dont really have a Clear Strategy what we should do or should not do based on our our spirits i think you face uncertainly if its really a lot of difficult situations the decisions that moment what do you do about that in your professional. Approach to. How people are feeling mentally because this is something that youve trained for many years for he done the research for at and now this is a whole new situation has i go 1st what he did. No i mean i mean didnt i mean that you know with the men did they with these women. That we have before or who is some of the challenges that it means for amanda halt. This and. My major concern now how can we organize. Still provided mendenhall to our basins to all of the people we normally it and on an outpatient basis way way or as i mentioned before as a group stand up and now you have to remember these lockdown also all nonessential movements within the city country and. Also affects the ability to see your provider see your psych at least psychologist to attended a hospital or even to go to the emory desir room that you know hospitals that are. Going to care of basic may about how theyve grown so we need to completely. Change the way we provide care but at the same time. Make these care are vital piece so thats why we can invent 3 and seek ways and we are now in 10 days we have to sit all our activities for which were bays and mainly all people the press and the on time human contact we. Have providers and he has the move into telemedicine in the phone conversations or social Media Contacts because we we need to do is to be in contact with basic but at the same time we have to make sure they restrict i smite to sponsible when they go a lot even to see their. Something just very troubling to. You ok i mean we are now as much connected as a you make you make a really you make some some most of all excellent points there and i also want to bring in a huge chief audience because they are feeling anxious to say the least and we have m. Selling on each aimed at m. 76. 00 explaining in the 1st 2 weeks of quarantine i found it difficult to concentrate to read a book or do anything i could only for the news and i was very distracted is this normal i dont want to stop doing a string therapy session but me here if you want to take that want to on festival and then you can jump in after whats going to happen here absolutely it is a normal let me be honest im a healthcare professional its a one off lockdown you know we have 20 more days to go and if you ask me am i free or for yes i am and i record yes i am so for any person who is voted out there its absolutely understandable situation its a new situation altogether the question is how do we go to this i think thats 3 levels one is to get our nerves under control we need to get we need to be responding to the acting for how sorry im here im just going to ask you how because its easy to say it not yes im easy to control with. Absolutely so where does mean cycle and the fear come from when we need it its a lack of knowledge i think everyones what it and like going to climb practice how is this going to change my life from the field to if we are aware how to keep ourselves safe i think of that knowledge to know that theres betty im following additionally breathing exercises in india and you. Can be very head and this big thing like someone like to live has said this spent thinking us supreme time and the amount of it the meeting you get can be in the process. If i can just something i totally agree i think and one thing we can and ive forgotten other that most of us probably will be fine i think were in a situation where it counts adapt to a new its a weird situation everything is new our pos behavior still pretty work anymore we have to find ways but if you look at the research that earthquakes 911 at any other catastrophe a catastrophic event in the past most of the people will be fine so i think i dont want to downplay kind of use that all there is will be for some people who tough especially if you have some kind of preexisting conditions of vulnerabilities and i think we have to figure out how we can take care of the speaker and how we can reach them but just if you have not a history of and its like a mental disorder you will probably be fine you will experience a face of change if any self and certainly an exam but you will get up to that and i think we shouldnt kind of forgot that the majority of us will be fine and if i just look at the researcher for look at the people here around me and south london theyre remarkably calm and just going on both their business and my students most of them are doing very fine too so i think of course theres 4 people who are some very pretty its inquisitions this could be very worsen the situation and most of us then i think will be filing thats thats good thats a real shine and let me just bring invest that because you. You mention people preexisting conditions this whole situation must be quite triggering for many of them looking here for m b c news were talking about this doctor has a im going to as im going to put this to you coronavirus is a personal nightmare for people with o. C. D. And Anxiety Disorders the idea of having to wash your hands dont touch this dont take your shoes off take this off change your clothes or if that that sounds like weve all got o. C. D. All of a sudden lot about if youve already got an existing condition where are you going to go to for help. For all we know we know that india is and is focused and says this is the people who are more important of all. To help some end Health Problems are the ones that are. Already help one. Out. Combat if we dont help some business are not i think right you mentioned it. I basically dont see compulsive disorder the whole effort of the therapy is tried it has been trying to control the behavior and i am now. Measure that this new data show this if this isnt getting your hands as much as possible d im going to do that something it is the times then it is clear but 2 what. I mean the main main issue for me here is that i was myself or one of these own colleagues that most of the people lubricant were it is true we are in a in a new situation in terms of the specific of the. Day i mean humanity has been deposit and there are a lot of stressful sit with tenses and we know although theres a recycling of. All places so most of them were bought people we will never be the reason we say to take care of them in these times of rising to these with a getting back play once said think for just. One more thing i think yeah i think there are people with one of them of the state of i think the other group of people im kind of concerned about is people who are basically at the front line who work. In the u. K. Or working for the National House they have varied or from ponced research i think if you can who can i just can i just honestly say absent directly whats coming on on you tube as you are saying im concerned about the frontline this is coming out on you tube absolutely not you can just on. From Lauren Lauren says any suggestions on how to manage your Mental Health when you are a Frontline Worker you cannot escape the pandemic when it is literally your job to be surrounded and deal with it every day you are absolutely going there said go ahead art salons question. Ok so what i actually want to said is that i think thats a group of people who should be put somewhere because the fun of something almost like us will be fine but i think if you look at the kind of research and tracking how the people that were at the frontline fighting sarson south korea are down there were some 20 to 25 percent who had you know they are so posttraumatic stress some sense a hyphen and the and depression so i think just us all the things we do for people who have some certain vulnerability i think we need to kind of realize that these are people that are under immense stress in a very difficult situation they might even be much more isolated from their families because they conquer all because just there they have to isolate their work so i think its really difficult situation we have to kind of think about how we as a society or as a government or a Health Care Provider can give them special especially how well let me mapmakers out it. I mean we are we are that as a baby hes here now i mean we did a shoe of what they did to people into frontline i mean did that day nurses that doctor solve it all to stop working in the units and they are under a lot of stress to watch some of this is stressful think that this is this that matt that. Night though it was an occasion i was working with that we base it with are going to be despondent and i know that is that is ever how effective deceased so i am and that is situations pain 12 percent of all effected in spain our Health Care Workers theres a huge number it is a huge per cent and thats of course one of the. Main east of concerns on and of course its very stressful situation because you some cases see very very very fast on. Thank you see. Also dont you. If if if im if i may i hate to interrupt you because you have beautiful calming voices and beautiful covering suggestions as well but i want to just push ahead and talk about coping strategies the Stream Digital team want to see how Much Technology maybe like tele apps and games might be able to help us keep connected while were forced to stay apart and this is what we found havelok. Track apps like sam velo are now Offering Premium Services for free this is a direct response to eases mentions of coverage 19 and coronavirus spiking 500 percent since mid january video game fans now playing online is a sure way of connecting socially with mates from a distance theyre sharing their current must play lists. 2 and weve seen signs that game is a living that best quarantine life on a high. Youre finally vindicated game as you can see right now is online no ones going to tell you of all right so we asked our online audience are you using apps to cope with stress and the exile from the corona Virus Outbreak got some interesting responses so for me as an r. C. Yooper has been a great for me since the outbreak and lockdown in my country brought my thoughts together feeling calm and relaxed at this time of a world deadly pandemic and this is what you pull looks like your Emotional Health assistant one more from online t. J. Says talk life app is one Global Community that is one the needed healthy dont judge a disk of support and compare to other Mental Health absent then this is there youre not alone lets talk here im just wondering if the idea of traditional start youre sitting there one hour one is that now been superseded by what people can have to outreach and doing in other ways because you cant sit next to anybody right now in isolation yes. Yes im going to start with a daughter whos a little south of me here 1st and then you can pick up after me a guide. Yes it absolutely is because look in your back in india as well i am working out of home now so all my Counseling Services is wired the internet not just that i feel theres a bright big distinction which we are seeing is a so a lot of Wellness Programs and that is more a preventive measure which helps for all getting into a Mental Health graph on the other hand what we are seeing and is gaining a lot of success online chat in india especially there is a lot of stigma mud regarding Mental Health concerns and anonymously people are being able to access this over the past few years we have been seeing these resources and are used to go and now i feel that this pandemic with the demands of being so different its going to completely tickle were in fact Artificial Intelligence is also being brought in we have apps like weiser because your man or the number of Health Care Providers will not be able to figure out of the supply that is the demand that is out there she goes up like on to meet it so oppositional intelligence i think its your state and its been used are not just to innovate and find solutions with treatment but also to help people with them until death is just just one warning had if i go back to has a tabloid here on twitter says many tech tools will pop up now to capitalize on the largest collective meltdown in Human History his time not mine check privacy and data use time salary dont fall for the exorbitant claims no app can replace a trained human watch out for the Mental Health equivalent of trash so this is a warning here to say your thoughts. Well i mean yes to remind you that social distances is a physical distance but of course we still encourage those that are in this difficult situation to someone when possible dont someone to trust. And in fact be not hospital yes to solve this are 24 hour relying for those staff health staff that are under stress that t