This year’s World Mental Health Day, October 10, comes at a time when our daily lives have changed a lot due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The last few months have brought many challenges: for healthcare workers, providing care in difficult circumstances, will work for fear of bringing COVID-19 home with them; for students, adapting to attending classes from home, with little contact with teachers and friends, and looking forward to their future; for workers whose livelihoods are threatened; for a large number of people trapped in poverty or in fragile humanitarian conditions with very limited protection from COVID-19; and for people with mental health conditions, many experience greater social isolation than ever before. And this is not to manage the grief of losing a loved one, sometimes without being able to say goodbye.
Listen to Br. Zhafir Amin’s thought on this day!