Confined minds
Confined Minds is a project that reflects on how people with mental health challenges have experienced confinement, and how this pandemic is affecting their lives, while also focusing on the fragility that sustains the human being when a situation like a pandemic exposes our vulnerabilities, and anxiety and fear become another virus to fight.
The WHO has warned that COVID 19 will affect the mental health of the general population in various ways, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress, confusion and anger.
"Changes in general are very scary, but life is
change, there is beauty in not knowing, in which everything is not decided.
A person who has gone through a disorder has understood that he is not in control, now as a society, COVID challenges us to learn to accept uncertainty, because that is being alive, ”said Marcos Obregón, director of Radio Nikosia, an association formed by people with and without medicalized itineraries of suffering.
The health crisis in El Salvador turned into a political crisis. Every day there are disagreements between the Legislative Body and the Government. The latter, who tries in an excessive way only to enhance the image in the midst of the disaster. The worldwide emergency that COVID-19 has caused also ravages El Salvador. Since March, the country has undergone a mandatory quarantine of 82 days. The armed forces took control of the streets. Nothing had life in the city and in the small towns. The streets were empty and silent. Public transportation remains on hiatus. The most affected has been the working class and small merchants. Many closed their businesses and faced their own economic crisis. This led to a breakdown in the small economy. Entire communities were hungry and took to the streets to wave their white flags in search of charity. Since May, hospitals have collapsed. Medical personnel have died due to the lack of protective supplies for treatment of positive patients. A halfway hospital, which had a promise of construction in two months, and which has been under construction for four months. Some cemeteries have exceeded their capacity. El Salvador is approaching its elections to elect mayors and deputies. The country has broken its quarantine, and politics has taken the campaign speech amid a pandemic.