Mental Health Professionals as The Torch Bearers in The Current Pandemic

Abstract

In times of this prevailing uncertainty, when one's own health and that of others become one of the main issues of daily life and which makes us think how freedom was taken for granted.

In the past eleven months we have seen our healthcare workers on their toes giving the best they could. Another segment of healthcare industry that is working on front line of this pandemic and may continue to do so in the coming years is of our mental health professionals. As uncertainty, confusion, despair, lack of movement'are giving rise to stress, frustration, fear and string of other intense emotions yet to unfold once this pandemic is over, mental health professionals shall stand on the front line.