COVID-19 pandemic: Mental stress, depression, anxiety among the university students in Bangladesh

On 27 March 2020, the World Health Organization warned that stress, anxiety, and fear would increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation (World Health Organization, 2020). Another research showed that due to COVID-19 crisis, suicide, domestic violence, mental disorders, anxiety, depressive disorders are already increasing worldwide (Sifat, 2020). The lockdown following the unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 has turned people from social to isolated human beings as a means of combating the pandemic. The pandemic impacts have already killed an enormous number of people across the world, and new cases of infected people continue to increase. Health experts estimate that about 300 million people suffer from panic and anxiety disorders and warn that our mental health could be at high risk…