The pressures of modern work culture, covid pandemic and social media omnipresence is leading to stress and anxiety leading to burn-out, depression and ill-health – both mental and physical and negatively impacts people’s wellness.
With technological advancement followed by the global pandemic situation we are spending more time in front of the screens than ever before with hybrid working or work from home culture . In today’s age there is unlimited exposure , bombardment of information, which creates the continuous thoughts and emotions inside our minds . This constant thoughts and emotions inside our mind results in constant noise in our heads resulting in anxiety and stress in human physio system. This results in poor decision making due to poor brain waves . The poor brain waves may results in poor sleep, & memory, mental disorders such as Anxiety & depression , lowering of attention span and an inability to act with awareness. This effects the decision making process in case of urgency ! .
When you open the WHO website, you find some weird facts like- ‘15% of working age adults were estimated to have a mental disorder in 2019’. Well, it seemed like that article goes back to Pre-Covid era in 2019. That figure must have certainly increased owing to the large scale loss to human life and global economies resulting in loss of jobs and businesses. No one can contest the fact that COVID19 has heavily contributed for low mental health at workplaces for many.
Well it started today, when I suddenly got a prompt on my android phone stating “check your digital wellbeing”. Curious, I checked the page to find who is tracking by digital wellbeing and for sure why?
Talking about mental health has always been a taboo in India. People, in general, are dismissive about mental health of others and of their own for that matter. Mental health has mostly been neglected and trivialized at a cost people in India generally fail to realise.
Post covid, work from home has become a trend which has led to an increase in people complaining of back and neck pain. Even before the covid wave, employees with desk jobs used to be constant sufferers of back and neck problems. A lot of this has to do with the posture and human anatomy. Humans evolved from apes. As we developed from four-legged to two-legged beings, it was the SPINE which had to take the brunt. As the work can’t be neglected, there are certain things which are in our control and which can reduce the discomfort upto some extent.