Psychological impact of COVID-19 worldwide

Abstract

Humans are social beings composed of physical, psychological, spiritual and many other aspects too. Since there is an ongoing pandemic situation of covid-19, incepted around January 2020 has been recognized as a global pandemic by the WHO. The presence of the pathogen and fear of its spread changed the entire economy of the world upside down. Each country did its best to insulate its citizens from global and regional hotspots this necessitated preventive and curative measure which includes lockdown, self-isolation, quarantine, social distancing to name a few. There are many sudden changes in the individual that led to many psychological issues in society like, Stress, Depression, Deprivation of basic psychological needs, Conspiracy, Catastrophic potentials etc. This review presents psychological and behavioural changes due to the new scenario presented by Covid-19.