The Mental Diet Plan :A Matter of concern for women during Pandemic. With special reference to the Flood-affected Women of Assam

Humanities

The world always talks about your food and nutritional diet plan! It seems like wherever you go, and wherever you look people are talking about diets. Just standing in line at the grocery store, you’ll notice every magazine has some type of article on diets. The headlines say, “How to Lose 10 lbs in Time for Summer! Five Exercises to Trim Your Tummy”. Simultaneously this has led everyone to neglect their mental fitness and its diet plan to such a position that they don’t even consider putting it up as a coffee table discussion. Rounding up all those concerns, this paper exclusively deals with diet plans concerning the human mind and how its laxity has its adverse effect, especially among women. Recently, researchers at the University of Essex conducted a study and found out that women are more vulnerable to mental health problems during the coronavirus pandemic than men. The study revealed that the number of women suffering from stress and loneliness during the 2 COVID-19 outbreak has risen from 11 percent to 27 percent. On the other hand, the number of men suffering from at least one mental condition has reached 18 percent from 7 percent. So in this contemporary time, every definition of mental diet whether its rhetoric or clinical seems to act as a void in the case of ‘ pande-mentally’ affected Women. Researchers have also justified that with the added pressure of childcare, domestic duties and ‘work from home’ responsibilities have degraded the mental scenario of the women to a much lower level. Therefore what women should add to her bucket list apart from household responsibilities and child care to keep her mentally fit and sane is well discussed in this paper. Every woman should take to her notice how her mental diet is absolutely different from her food diet and how this diet plan is equally necessary to keep herself both physically and mentally healthy. The other purpose of my study is to understand the linkage between flood and its impact on mental health especially women. To fulfill this objective an attempt has been made to examine how North-Eastern flood detrimentally affects the mental stability of those women who every year experience economic, social as well as individual loss. The second part of the paper directs an effective intervention that should be given to those women who deal with emotional instability, stress reactions, anxiety, trauma during the pre, peri, and post diseasterial period.

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