Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect your Mental Health: A Psychological Toolkit

Dr Brendan Kelly

Mar 2020 · Merrion Press

About this ebook

How worried should I be? What information can I trust? What should I tell the children? Can I survive the panic, let alone the virus?

These are certainly challenging, unprecedented times. Allow pre-eminent psychiatrist Dr Brendan Kelly to help you understand and cope with the unique stresses of today, as we all try to deal with the threat of COVID-19 within our homes, communities and throughout the world.

The anxiety associated with the coronavirus crisis is different to the anxiety seen in traditional disorders, because demonstrably there is something to fear, and that’s what makes this worry so ubiquitous, so persistent and so challenging to manage. The good news is that, just as we are capable of finding sophisticated ways to make ourselves more anxious, we are equally good at finding sophisticated ways to manage our mental health, once we put our minds to it. Anxiety-management techniques help hugely once they are modified to suit the new situation that we face, and in Coronavirus: A Psychological Toolkit, Dr Brendan Kelly will give you all the practical tools you and your family need to navigate these dark, uncertain days.

Ratings and reviews

This is a must read guide for everyone. Fact based and informative. The guide to dealing with today and Corona Virus and its impact on your mental health. All the tools and techniques will be extremely helpful for the future too.

B herd to understand but verry helpful thank you

practical ,easy to read and very informative

About the author

Dr Brendan Kelly was born in Galway and is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin. In addition to his medical degree (MB BCh BAO), he holds masters degrees in healthcare management (MA) and Buddhist studies (MA); and doctorates in medicine (MD), history (PhD), governance (DGov) and law (PhD). He also has a masters degree (MSc) in epidemiology, the study of the distribution and determinants of disease, from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Brendan has written and co-written over 250 scientific papers, 500 articles in newspapers and journals, and 11 books, including the best-selling ‘The Doctor Who Sat For A Year’ (2019). He is a regular contributor to radio and print media and writes a blog for Psychology Today.