COVID19 pandemic could have been the thing of the\npast, but the psychological and mental health effects of it may linger over\ntime. Constant monitoring and continuous surveillance of public emotional and\npsychosocial health status would therefore be urgent from now on. The mental health effect that it poses may\nemerge in the form of anxiety, or cause physical damage, or even disrupt family\nand social relationship. To some people, it affects their own life, by\nhindering the establishment of good quality life. At some point of time, they may\nfeel they have missed something in their life, with no idea about what and why,\nand the future would never be the same as before the pandemic strikes. Even\nterrifying when we start to believe that the pandemic would not fade away from\nour lives for the next 5 years, as has been reported. Therefore, it is the responsibility\nof ourselves, to combat and prevent our loved ones from being a victim of the situation.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The virus has caused the\npandemic and the disease known as COVID19, has impacted every corner of our\nlife, resulting in universal psychosocial damages. It not only challenges our\nearlier or existing conception about disease and infection, but also our view\non how to survive economically and financially, and in our way of dealing with\nit, emotionally and socially. Similarly, in the wake of the pandemic, our views\nof how work and jobs should be organized, implemented and monitored has changed\ntremendously. Accordingly, this has also affected how workplace mental health is\nconceptualized, and may need to be reconceptualised, because the need and\ndemand of the job and how work is delivered has currently changed. Mental\nhealth and psychosocial health need and demand is a prerequisite and\nindispensable part of a well-organized and systematic workplace functioning\nnowadays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Incidental to the\nunderstanding of the need and demand of workplace mental health is the belief that\nevery member is important to the organization\u2019s wellbeing and success.\nSimilarly, members also feel the same, that they are important to themselves\nand to the company, and aware that their existence and contribution is crucial\nto the success of every well managed organization. Accordingly, every member in\nthe organization should have the same feeling and understand that they need to\ncontribute and that their contribution is well received and recognized in a\ngood manner. It is not only about how we see ourselves and other members as\nimportant to the company, but also how we talk and walk the sense of\nrecognition, acceptance, and appreciation to other fellows in the organization,\nunconditionally and nonjudgmentally. Only then this would bring a sense of\nrespect and love. This has always been the key in social life and organizational\nactivities as Allah says in the al Quran, in Chapter al Hujurat, verse 11\nmeans: O you who have believed, let not a\npeople ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let\nwomen ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not\ninsult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames.\nWretched is the name of disobedience after [one’s] faith. And whoever does not\nrepent – then it is those who are the wrongdoers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upon this, further step of\npromoting mental health in the workplace would be well accepted by every member\nof the organization, and the organisation\u2019s objectives can be achieved because everybody\nrespects the laws, company\u2019s procedures and management standards of the\norganizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, amidst COVID19\npandemic, the mental health needs and demand are now centralized to the new\nnormal kind of things. With working environment and new procedures taking place\nin the organization following the movement control orders and recovery plans,\nthe workplace mental health needs and management must therefore follow suit. We\nunderstand that not all companies and organizations are well versed and\nliterate about mental health, but awareness and campaigns are on their way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some of the things\nthat need to be considered when dealing with mental health issues during the\npandemic. Members of the organization may find that some of their fellow\ncolleagues now have a high level of anxiety and intolerant towards the\nsurroundings to the extent of developing paranoid thinking. Some may even\ndevelop symptoms of panic, lethargy and burn out, difficulty in sleeping,\nsocially awkward and loneliness. The organization\u2019s ability to recognize the\npsychosocial changes can help and is a good start in promoting healing and\nstability. Physical health and safety must always be the number one priority in\nany organization, similarly, mental health challenges and proactive management\nduring this pandemic should never be marginalized either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COVID19 pandemic could have been the thing of the past, but the psychological and mental health effects of it may linger over time. Constant monitoring and continuous surveillance of public emotional and psychosocial health status would therefore be urgent from now on. The mental health effect that it poses may emerge in the form of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_wpzoom_pinterest_image_url":"","_wpzoom_pinterest_hidden_image":"0","_wpzoom_pinterest_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-straits-times","category-139","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}