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“BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), mental health has been an aspect that practitioners need to attend to,” said Mr. Ruel Cajili, Southville College of Psychology Dean. The progressing crisis stipulates a permanent impact on our psychological state; an impact that healthcare professionals will further gauge. These experts and practitioners join forces to track the varying factors that will challenge their lifelong campaign to raise mental health as a fundamental requisite to overall wellness especially in times of global adversity, our battle against the COVID-19. Though, it’s the present moment that will be crucial to weighing triggers and effects with the “new normal” as they call it, setting a parallel view on our understanding of anxiety… “before” and “after” the pandemic is necessary. As the COVID-19 pandemic made its presence felt across the world, it is causing us to shift to the #NEWNORMAL to be able to adapt. Alongside this change are emerging issues such as stress, fear, anxiety, and depression. The talk of Professor Michael Jimenez thoroughly discussed how we manage and react to these situations unfolding quickly in our lives and the communities that we belong in,” shared facilitator Ms. Rea Celine Villa, RPSY | Southville Head of Athletics, Psychology Professor.
