Identify and manage the unhealthy stress quickly...

I had an opportunity to interact with a lady who is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicines and has been voluntarily helping some patients over the last decade.

Based on her observations and experience, she said that those people who always seclude themselves, live in their own world and like to always talk about the past, have a greater tendency of developing mental depression. She has apparently counselled some of them and helped them walk out of their tunnel of depressions. I am impressed with her because she is doing all these on a voluntary basis.

There are reportedly 25,000 people in Singapore suffering from mental problems. The daughter of one of my ex-colleagues suffered from mental depression while she was still studying in Primary Four and was receiving psychiatric treatment from the Institute of Mental Health.

I think in a highly-stressed and fast-paced society like Singapore, people must learn to identify the unhealthy stress and manage it quickly before it builds up and develops into mental depression.