The countdown for Diwali festival has begun. From home-makers to bread earners, from peons to professionals, everyone is falling prey to the pre-festival fervour and increased workload.
The countdown for Diwali festival has begun. From home-makers to bread earners, from peons to professionals, everyone is falling prey to the pre-festival fervour and increased workload. To enjoy their vacations during the festival days, many are trying hard to finish their targets by putting in extra hours at work.
But the increasing workload has led to stress which in turn is resulting in people lining up at the city’s hospitals. Dr Vinod Goyal, a city-based psychotherapist, said, “There is a sudden surge in the number of psychosomatic illnesses and nervous breakdowns among house-wives and professionals. The illness is due to increase in stress and workload in the pre-festive fortnight.”
Such a surge is annually observed, especially in the run-up to the Diwali festival in the city, say psychologists. “We call this pre-festival fever - a Mathiya Syndrome”, informed Goyal. While home-makers over-work and prepare specialties for the feats, the annual cleaning routine of the homes also happens just before the Diwali festivals. Professionals too are over-occupied and thus they need to put in extra hours to the work to meet their targets which fall prior to the Diwali holidays. Professionals and business associates who feel stressed out are quite aware of the fact that they need to handle stress so as to meet their goals. And to run that extra mile and meet the festive demands, they rush to psychiatrists to learn better performance techniques or simply request them for an instant hospitalisation as a remedy to handle the situation.
“We are flooded with demands from home makers and professionals to admit them to hospital as an escape route from over stressed routines,” added Goyal.
However, shrinks seldom surrender to such demands and prefer taking an audit of the patient’s personality type and prescribe de-stressing techniques and help them organise their routine.
This helps them to balance the workload, family time and deal with the pre-festive expectations.
Dr Prashant Bhimani, a hypnotherapist, said, “We rather prescribe few alterations in routine which help the professionals to de-stress. We also advise them to join up for de-stressing treatment after the festival days are over.”
De-stressing treatment is a combination of physical exercise, recreational activities, counselling therapy and body massages. While tackling the pre-festival stress some rush to shrinks looking for an escape. "To meet the festival oriented targets many endure extended work routines, lack of sleep, over eating - and end up with attacks of hypertension, cardiac disease or depression," said Dr. Vishwajeeth Jaiswal - an expert who daily handles about 20 professionals aged between 25 to 45 for stress management at Swas Naturopathy -another lifestyle clinic in the city.
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