Neuropsikiatri: We'll forget pandemic when we start dealing with mental health problems.

COVID-19's pandemic has also affected the mental health of Kosovo citizens. This results from increased cases that are being handled for mental health healing in the country.

Sami Rexhepi, director and neuropsychiatrics at the Mental Health Centre in Pristina, has raised the alarm that the biggest problem for citizens will emerge when the pandemic ends.

The citizens of Kosovo are now operating under a huge amount of hot and full of coals, and we are working with this very vicious psychological period. We have forgotten pandemic when we start dealing with the effects of mental health problems from this pandemic”, he stressed.

Rexhepi argued that Kosovo's population has only been in trauma from the 1998/1999 war, and the trauma has returned with a show of pandemic.

The biggest problem has been to deal with post traumatic stress disorders, which we're dealing with now in the war 99, we're talking about a disease that is incurable. We can only functionalize the person, but not by saying it's healed”, the neuropsychiaser showed.

He says suicides in Kosovo have consistently been on the rise.

Suicide has been on the rise in Kosovo all the time. It's not that they haven't even seen why they've seen it, but the main reason is in our population that very big expectations have been created, and when big expectations arise, then despair and frustration is too big”, he indicated.