Volume 9 : Issue 1 (2022)

Building Psychological Immunity to Combat Covid-19

The corona virus pandemic Covid-19 is the defining global health crisis of our time. The only way to fight with this condition is to build and strengthen immunity within ourselves. Health ministry has issued several guidelines to ensure the physical hygiene and to build physical immunity against the virus, but the problem is not only physical. Issue of guidelines for physical immunity and hygiene has been highlighted by the government but that of psychological immunity has been ignored. It is very crucial to build and strengthen psychological immunity along with physical immunity to make ourselves strong enough to protect from corona infection and to resilient from the damages, especially psychological, caused by this pandemic. Psychological immunity is defined as “a system of adaptive resources and positive personality characteristics that acts as psychological antibodies at the time of stress.” As physical immunity protects individuals from different viral infections of the environment, psychological immunity acts as a buffer against environmental stressors, day-to-day hassles, and negative emotions. Building psychological immunity is a process that can be targeted through various deliberate and purposeful interventions. Some measures for boosting psychological immunity are suggested in detail. These are simple tips that can be useful. Most of them focus on the ways one can increase his/her resilience.

Psychological Immunity, Covid-19

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