Coronavirus: Children 'developing post-traumatic stress' from pandemic
Children are developing serious mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress, because of the coronavirus pandemic, a charity has warned.As well as anxiety about their loved ones' health, many children are facing social isolation and hunger.With many classrooms still closed for lockdown, children unable to access the internet at home have been effectively shut out of online lessons.
These children had been particularly affected by the global death tolls, he said, which had made them worried their parents and friends would die of coronavirus. Galiema Amien-Cloete, a primary school headteacher in London, told the BBC she'd also seen parents' anxieties around the coronavirus"transferred to their children".
One primary-school-age girl from London, quoted in the report, said she feels"anxious because my mum works for the NHS, and I don't know if she's going to catch it or not". Another young girl said every time her mother left the house to go to work she thought,"mum's going to die, she's not coming back".
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