Mental Health Problems in the Indian Police – How we could help them
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
The objectives of the paper was to find out that what are the major mental health related problems faced by our police personnel, how they coped with them and in what way we (mental health professionals and our government) can help them to cope with in a more effective way. Policing has been described as one of the most challenging, stressful, health threatening and psychologically dangerous jobs in the world. Their work is associated with danger, bureaucracy, and tense community relations. The major mental health related problems faced by the police personnel are stress, impulsive behavior, heart attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and at its worse, acute or chronic stress can lead to suicide among them. These mental health problems affects their work, family and as well as their social life. Their personal lives were often negatively influenced, especially with respect to maintaining nonpolice friendships, not enough time to spend with their children and family, no time/leave to attend social functions or festivals), alcoholism, sexual dissatisfaction among spouse, use of abusing language, fight with spouse on a little issue, lower job satisfaction, absenteeism, excessive aggressiveness at work, reduced efficiency, short tempered etc. Thus, this paper presents a modest attempt towards rendering police jobs and their life more satisfying and healthier than they are now.
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Manoj Kumar Pandey
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