Covid: IWPC organises counselling session

“There could not be any uniformity about what the Covid-19 has taught us or what lesson we had learnt from the traumatic experience during the pandemic. It varies individual to individual”, said Adithy, a counselling psychologist.

The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) organised an interaction online with Adithy on Saturday. The psychologist said that there are various means of coping with personal suffering or loss of lives of friends or relatives. One can deal with this trauma by coming to terms with sufferings or loss of lives.

The victim can also talk to relatives and friends and thereby adjust to the trauma of pandemic. We all have emotions inside us like anger, sadness, or guilt and every such emotion is a call for help, the psychologist said while interacting online.

She also shared different human behaviors in different circumstances and suggested ways and means to deal with it.

She also further suggested that one can deal with anxiety and trauma through physical activities and breathing exercises like ‘sighing or straw breathing’. Small physical exercises help a lot in such situations.

Adithy is a Pune-based counselling psychologist involved in education, prevention and intervention in the field of mental health for 20 years. She takes the approach of trauma healing in her psychotherapy.