COVID-19: Mental Health Issues

COVID-19: Mental Health Issues is a unique, hand-curated guide to understanding the virus and learning about its significant effects on mental health. It also includes factual, evidence-based resources and tips for taking care of your mental well-being during this time. Easy to navigate, this collection represents a broad spectrum of a variety of recent publications about COVID-19, with the primary content centered around related mental health issues. This guide addresses topics that range from understanding how to manage stress and anxiety during home isolation, to coping with the sickness of friends, relatives, or colleagues. It is free for everyone to read. If you’d like to your own copy, please email shosseini@nndcif.org

50+ and Healthy: What You Need to Know About Mental Health and Healthy Aging- for You and Your Loved Ones

50+ and Healthy is an exceptionally strong, evidence-based guide to help facilitate positive mental health. It presents easy-to-understand information on a topic of great importance – healthy aging, mental health, and mental illnesses. This information is prepared by an internationally renowned leader in the field – Professor Murali Rao, MD, FACLP, DLFPA, Professor & Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at the well-known Loyola University in Chicago.

This text is a wonderful opportunity to know about available resources, practical approaches, and a GAME PLAN(TM) method enabling you to help yourself and your loved ones, of any age, in moments of distress or mental health crisis. The book is for readers of any educational and professional background. There is no technical jargon. With easily presented information and relatable case studies, you can learn a lot in a very short time. Here’s what Dr. Rao covers:

Healthy aging and mental health
Common mental illnesses, why people get them, how to identify them, and how to manage them
Practical approaches for first aid and later interventions
Self-care for mental health and successful aging
If you are interested in healthy aging and how to help yourself, your family members, and your friends with mental health, this book is for you. Empower yourself with mental health knowledge today!

All proceeds go to NNDC- India Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, to help their team promote mental health awareness, breakdown the stigma of mental illness, and provide communities in India and the US with proper mental health education and medical resources.