Dongdaemun-gu Provides Emotional Support to Single-Person Households with Mind Care Packages

Psychological Prevention for High-Depression Single-Person Households Through Mind Care Packages... Emotional Recovery Expected

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Yoo Deok-yeol) is providing mental care packages to single-person households who feel significant depression and social isolation due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

As the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has increased the time spent indoors, many individuals are experiencing personal anxiety and social confusion. In this situation, single-person households are often psychologically vulnerable and at risk of suicide, making urgent care activities necessary to prevent this.

Accordingly, the district announced that it will support mental care packages to 100 single-person households with high levels of depression, identified by visiting nurses from the Visiting Dong Resident Center (hereafter ‘Chatdong’) and life-keeper activists trained in life-keeping education, to help restore mental health.

The mental care package consists of various items such as herbal tea, masks, patches, coloring books, and colored pencils, which help the emotional recovery of single-person household residents exhausted by social isolation.

Chatdong visiting nurses and life-keeper activists regularly check on the well-being of single-person households, and if depression is severe, suicide prevention specialists provide psychological support through phone and face-to-face counseling.

If additional counseling is needed, the district connects individuals with professional institutions such as mental health medical institutions and the Dongdaemun-gu Mental Health Welfare Center to implement systematic psychological quarantine.

Yoo Deok-yeol, Mayor of Dongdaemun-gu, stated, “We have created and are providing mental care packages to care for the mental health of residents living alone,” adding, “We will identify crisis households experiencing internal difficulties due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and provide various supports to alleviate depression and isolation.”

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