Problem: How did you maintain your mental health during COVID-19 pandemic? Company: Anonymous Posted On: MindSumo

1. Mental health & the pandemic
Ways of staying sane and calm

2. COVID-19 has brought a phase shift in the daily day-to-day
lives of almost every person living on this planet.
And, this has put people in a kind of condition that has never
occurred before…

3. Let’s first consider the problems general masses are facing…

4. The Problems
1. Isolation: With the condition of COVID-19, governments across the
world are forced put lockdown conditions, and as an effect of that,
people have started to feel very alone and separated.
2. Unemployment: Due to lockdown reason almost every company,
institute and organisation are forced to shut down their business.
3. Negativity: Multiple fatalities due to the disease have started to
make people feel frightened and endangered.
4. Work from Home (WFH) Issue: The separation line between work
and life has been blurred by the WFH culture.
5. Bad Health: Since people are spending most of their time at their
homes with no physical exercises, this has caused many health
related issues among the masses.

5. All these problems heavily affect the mental health of any
individual, and so now we will be discussing about curbing
these problems with radical solutions.

6. The Solutions
Mental health of any person depends upon a couple of factors, related
to the person’s day to day life and habits.
And if these factors are catered positively, we can successfully make
any person calm and sane, which means a good mental health.
We can generalize 3 major factors which affect almost every person,
they are:
1. The Mindset – This constitutes the person’s viewpoint
2. The Physique – This constitutes the person’s physical well being
3. The Environment – This constitutes nature of the person’s
surrounding environment

7. Now, lets discuss how these 3 major factors can be improved…

8. Improvement of: The Mindset
By possessing a positive mindset, one can see countless opportunities the
pandemic has provided to the masses, they are:
1. New ways of earning money: The pandemic has offered a plethora of
ways of starting new businesses with little investment. Example:
Online teaching, relationship consultancy, digital marketing,
freelancing and many more.
2. Talk to friends and family: Previously, talking to the close ones became
almost impossible with people’s busy schedules, but now is the best
time to embrace the bond and relationship people possess.
3. Find positivity: One should also focus on the underlying positivity
behind this pandemic, i.e. CO2 emission levels has dropped
significantly due to less pollution, no commutation frustration etc.
Solves isolation
Solves negativity
Solves unemployment
Solves WFH issue

9. Improvement of: The Physique
Physical health plays a major role in defining any person’s mental health:
1. Guided meditation: It is the perfect tool for staying calm.
2. Online yoga sessions: Join friends on online platforms like Zoom or
Google Meet for performing yoga sessions together.
3. Eat home cooked food: Avoid junk food, and start cooking new ways
of cooking food at home. This will unlock a new skill for the person
along with staying healthy.
4. Boost your immunity: Follow Ayurveda and eat organic fruits (prefer
Vitamin C containing fruits) and vegetables.
5. Physical fitness: Running, brisk walking, workout, Zumba, dancing,
everything will count in this category.
Solves negativity
Solves bad health

10. Improvement of: The Environment
The environment and surrounding helps in setting the mood of anyone:
1. Start gardening: Greenery enhances the mood of the person naturally and
hence this will have a good impact on the anyone’s mental health.
2. Listen to music and watch movies: It is a well proven fact that listening to
music and watching movies relaxes the mind while lightening up the mood.
3. Learn new skills: People can enhance their skill matrix by learning new skills
and technologies, which would make them more employable.
4. Play online games: People can play online games with their friends to
lighten up their mood and for having a good sense of company.
5. Follow hobbies: People can follow their hobbies and explore their hidden
talents. Example: Blogging, painting, dancing and many more.
Solves isolation
Solves negativity
Solves unemployment

11. Now, lets discuss the products which people followed
the most in such times.

12. Product suggestions
Following are the top 10 product suggestions based on personal
experiences:
1. Zoom: These mobile, desktop and browser based applications assisted
me extensively in organising various meetings with my friends and
attending classes.
2. Discord: For playing games together while conversing with my friends.
3. Spotify: To listen to music endlessly and helped me in setting up the
good mood.
4. Netflix: Provided me extensive range of movies and TV shows to watch.
5. Patanjali: An Indian Ayurvedic product company which provided me
with a range of immunity booster products.

13. Product suggestions continued…
6. Coursera: For learning new skills and latest technologies.
7. Yousician: A mobile application to learn music (on Guitar)
8. Epic Games: A website to download all the kinds of online games.
9. cult.fit: The mobile application by Curefit Healthcare Private Limited for
workouts and other fitness related activities.
10. YouTube: To watch cooking lessons, guided meditation and other casual
entertainment.

14. Now, coming to the part of things which would have
been useful if existed in such situation…

15. Product that should have existed
Following are the top 5 products that should have existed according to personal
experiences:
1. A healthier ready to eat snack: A much healthier ready-to-eat snack (apart
from noodles), like ready to eat sizzler.
2. COVID essential kit: A kit containing sanitizer, PPE kit, disinfectant spray etc.
3. Grocery delivery: A comprehensive grocery delivery mobile application,
which can deliver from fresh organic vegetables to daily used toiletries.
4. Single subscription for entertainment: Life would have been much easier if
all the movies and shows could be found at only one application, this would
have reduced the hassle of purchasing subscription of Netflix, Amazon
Prime, HULU etc.
5. A browser based online multiplayer game portal: This makes the game
much playable as some people do not want to fill up their computer disk
space.

16. A good mental health not only sets the person himself/herself
in a good mood, but also significantly impacts the mood of the
people surrounding that person.
So…
Stay happy, stay safe, and enjoy life to the fullest!