Group urges Nigerians to manage stress, prevent depression
The Dora-Care Behavioural Foundation has urged Nigerians to try as much as possible to eliminate stressors and prevent depression to live a normal healthy life.
Akinyelure, also a Psychiatric Nurse at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, said that stress was a major cause of diseases in Nigeria. “But before you can eliminate stressors, you need to, first of all, recognise what makes you stressed. She advised the public to support persons showing signs of depression by encouraging and talking to them to seek help to prevent them from attempting suicide.
According to her, hard drugs are one major cause of mental illness and young people should steer clear from hard drugs.
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