ABSTRACT
The author looks at the mental challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic in India and relevant policy responses. With ever mutating virus and nearly two years of physical, economic, and social devastation, the pandemic had overwhelming effects on the mental health of the infected, and more ominously, of the general people. The author also mentions that the upheavals around psychological distress do surpass the fallouts of the physical health devastation. The Covid-19 will afflict a certain proportion of people, but mental scars or phobia affects almost everyone. The pandemic has not only heightened the contributing factors for the pervading panic but also exacerbated the prospect of relapsing a range of mental, neurological and substance use disorders.
