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According to Kristina Čiuželienė, founder of Sidabrinės linija, BNS has called twice as many times in recent months as in the same period last year.
“The flow of calls remains quite stable if we compare the first and second quarantines. In the summer, the calls were moderate. However, if we compare November and December of the previous year with the corresponding period of this year, the flows have been increased by 100 percent ”, commented the representative of the emotional support line.
According to her, older people are suffering from uncertainty about how long to wait for the pandemic to subside, anxiety, doubts about health.
“The area is the most sensitive for older people, because during the first and second quarantines, they do not know what it would be like if they got seriously ill, if someone treated them or died at home without help,” said K.
The founder of Sidabrinės linija claims that in conversations, older people often emphasize segregation: they can no longer meet friends, visit museums or perform in communities.
“They live longer in that world of recreation and entertainment and all that part of life is extinct. (…) In the world of the elderly, stagnation is as it was during the first quarantine. Those of us who work may not feel much, the way we work, the way we work, is that our circumstances and conditions are complicated ”, commented the founder of the emotional support line.
According to her, it was only after the introduction of the quarantine in early November that calls were received when older people claimed that the help of volunteers provided during the first quarantine was lacking.
“There is a more general trend that the elderly who received help during the first quarantine, giving them food or other purchases, called them frustrated because there was no more that help,” he said.
In response to the deterioration of the coronavirus situation in the country, the National Volunteer Coordination Center announced in mid-December that it would resume its activities.
Doctors avoid taking care of your emotional health
Since the end of March, the MEDO.lt website has had a special platform for anonymous psychological help for doctors, relatives and pharmacists.
Although about 10 applications were received in the first week of operation, so far a total of about 40 people have done so.
As Kristina Norvainytė, president of the Young Doctors Association (JGA), told BNS, this figure does not reflect the real situation.
“Why is that? Well, doctors just don’t tend to seek emotional help, that culture is just formed. In the past, it was even legally required not to get sick, not to have mental or emotional disorders,” he said.
A study from the Association of Young Psychiatrists earlier this year found that more than two-thirds of surveyed physicians experience depression-like emotions. Just over a third of them sought help.
According to the research data, the main reasons why doctors did not go to medical institutions due to their emotional state were fear of being misunderstood and condemned by the public or relatives, fear of losing their license, indifference towards one same.
The study involved 643 health professionals in various fields.
According to Ms Norvainytė, amendments to the legislation were passed this summer, removing mental disorders from the list of illnesses that hamper medical practice, so she hopes this will encourage doctors to take more active care of their emotional health, as They are no longer at risk of losing their license.
“But certainly not all doctors know it yet,” he said.
The president of the Young Doctors Association said that the emotional state of doctors is critical at this time.
“What is happening now no longer fits the definition of burnout. (…) In some cases, this can also lead to depression. Particularly difficult for those who are not specialists in the therapeutic profile and suddenly find themselves in covid compartments. It is a great stress when you feel that it is not safe for the patient, that their competition is not what they would like, ”said K. Norvainytė.
Anxiety was replaced by anger
Lidija Stonienė, a volunteer psychologist-psychotherapist from Vilties linija, who provides emotional assistance to the safe, says the increase in the number of calls during the first quarantine has not changed.
According to her, although there was less talk about the coronavirus in the summer and more experiences about relationships, addictions, loneliness, the topic began to fill the conversations of people who called again in the fall.
“In one way or another, the words quarantine, coronavirus, are heard in almost every query right now,” he said.
According to L. Stonienė, if during the first quarantine the conversation was dominated by uncertainty and fear, then anger is felt more often.
“If we take the emotional background, then during the first quarantine there was more fear, confusion and ignorance. Now he feels that the quarantine fatigue, the morbidity statistics also show it. There is much more annoyance and anger,” said the psychologist.
“That anger is mainly due to the change in living and working conditions,” he added.
According to L. Stonienė, some people call because they don’t want to share negative emotions with others, and other people just don’t have anyone to say, they feel alone.
A pandemic is like the sword of Damocles
Dovilė Vervečkienė, emotional support coordinator for Vaikų linija, BNS says that if the flow of calls from children in the summer had returned to the usual rate, during the second quarantine they started to decrease again.
“Children stay home more often, and if there are more household members at home, it becomes more difficult for them to talk on the phone about their difficulties, especially if they don’t have their own space,” he said.
D. Vervečkienė cautions that the topics children discuss with counselors do not change much: relationships with adults, friends, and school problems continue to dominate.
“The issues of relationships with friends and parents used to be like running with each other, which will take priority. This is the next month in a row that we see the issue of relationships with parents take a more serious position first,” he said. a spokeswoman for the line, adding that this was due to increased friction at home.
He also said take into account that children began to talk more about health.
“Not necessarily their own, they may worry about the health of their loved ones, share a specific situation, but actually they talk a little more than usual. They pay more attention to it, ”said the“ Children’s Line ”representative.
Due to the lack of private space, fewer children also call the Youth Line, but they were replaced by older youth who had not applied before, so the overall flow of calls has hardly changed.
However, Rita Stanelytė, representative of this emotional support line, notes that the conversations have dragged on.
“It seems that people need to speak more, speak more deeply, because there is a lack of human connection. “The topics of conversation do not change, but everywhere you feel that anxiety about the current situation, it hangs like the sword of Damocles,” he said.
According to R. Stanelytė, there is still talk of relationships, addictions, the meaning of life, the risk of suicide, but they are complemented by problems related to financial difficulties due to quarantine, tense communication between housewives or lack of communication.
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