WHEN homemaker Rania*, 36, started hearing whispers in her ear and experiencing visual hallucinations last year, she realised that her mental health had deteriorated amidst the crushing Covid-19 pandemic. People aren’t even talking about me but I would feel that they were saying bad things about me, ” she says. Since then, I have a follow-up every month at the clinic and I’m also taking four different medications to treat my mental health, ” she says. It made me feel really helpless and depressed, ” he says. “She really helped me to cope and also referred me to a counsellor.”So now whenever he gets down, he tries to do some of the coping exercises that he has learnt.
