COLUMN: 'Having a routine ensures that our needs are being met' Reporter: 7 Feb 2021 Martina Brophy is a Senior Occupational Therapist working in the Mental Health Services and has a passion for Occupational Therapy in acute psychiatry. '); '); Since March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused us all huge worry and stress in relation to all aspects of our lives. Each one of us has been affected in some way by Covid’s cold presence and cruel nature. It has grasped at each and every one of us either physically or mentally or both. Since January of this year we have felt its brutal presence now more than ever as we battle with each new day, the daily Covid statistics and the sense of a longing to be reunited with family and friends.