Stress Awareness Week programme was conducted at PHQ Kohima on May 26. (Photo Courtesy: CRIMHSC)
Kohima, May 26 (MExN): The ongoing ‘stress awareness week’ programme conducted by the Carl Rogers Institute of Mental Health and School Counselling (CRIMHSC) in collaboration with the Directorate of State and Family Welfare, National Mental Health Program at PHQ Kohima on May 26.
Officers from different units attended the seminar. A press release issued by CRIMHSC stated that Rupin Sharma, IPS DGP, Nagaland in his short speech mentioned the need for assistance for the addiction and mental health issues in the Nagaland police department.
“Bad experiences lead us to resort to unhealthy means to deal with stress,” Sharma said. He suggested that the department also should come up with some recreation activities to help themselves de-stress.
The resource person, Dr Viketoulie Pienyu said the worries and anxieties of life have become more prevalent in this generation. “Our needs and wants have increased as compared to how it used to be before. Stress is unavoidable; however, we can do something about it. Some of the symptoms include restlessness, sleeplessness, irritability, concentration issues, headache, hypertension, diabetes, blood pressure, stroke and so on,” he remarked.
Pienyu said, “When someone is highly stresses, they cannot be productive in your workplace. There are different ways to manage your stress that can both be healthy and unhealthy.”
He highlighted that some of the common sources of stress in a workplace “like this includes lower rank officers’ income inequality, transfers, prolonged separation from family and as a result many soldiers unfortunately, resort to substance use to relieve their stress.”
He observed that progress at work, a good family life is the best way to buffer your stress, avoid substance use to relax because they are addictive and the tolerance increases.
He also spoke about how addiction is a disease and a compulsive behavior that affects the physical and psychological health.
Earlier, Kezhazolie Cornelius Mere expressed gratitude on behalf of the institute as well as shared some insight about the institute and its functioning. He said, “All of us deserve to be valued, all of us deserve to be acknowledged and all of us deserve to be understood, so that way we all grow together as a society.”
