Dr Anusha Lachman is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at Stellenbosch University. She is involved in Maternal & Child mental health services and her research interests include neuropsychiatry, global and infant mental health. She will be talking on mental health in the context of Online teaching and learning. This will address the expectations versus the reality of the new normal of online teaching and learning. What this reveals about our capacity to engage, interact and communicate and why this exhausts us more than we expect.