The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the psychiatric diseases
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the psychiatric diseases

Summary/Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychiatric symptoms and disorders can appear both in patients that suffer from the SARS-Cov-2 or in health care workers who take care of the patients diagnosed with this disease. Regarding the pathogenesis of the psychiatric manifestations and diseases that can appear while being infected with COVID-19 or after the disease, we can talk about biological and psychosocial factors, like: physical distancing, loneliness, fear of infecting the family and friends, increasing the workloads, lack of access for testing (at least in the initial months of the pandemics), lack of protective equipment, lack of vaccination (or the impossibility of vaccination earlier), different opinions regarding the pandemics and infection on different media channels (television, internet), insecurity, economic problems regarding the food and drugs availability (in the first months of the pandemics), uncertainty surroundings. Our article wants to draw attention among the psychiatric community about the long-term occurrence of a considerably higher number of cases of PTSD, anxiety, and depression than in previous infections. Recent cross-sectional studies described the fact that many patients with various psychiatric manifestations manage very hard the pandemics and are very rapidly deteriorating. It requires careful and continuous monitoring of former patients to ensure adequate support.

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