Experts warn of the long-lasting psychological damage of coronavirus measures

After the waves of infection that have brought coronavirus to every nation on the planet, health professionals are bracing themselves for another outbreak. With treatments to combat the physical effects of the virus now making progress in the population, mental health experts fear the next wave will be a psychiatric one.The pandemic has not only unleashed a physical threat on the world’s population but also a mental one. Restrictions brought in to control contact between people and reduce the spread of the virus are now showing to have had a severe detrimental effect on mental health. Fear, stress, anxiety and loneliness have been experience…