Poor Stress Management Kills Journalists Silently - Psychiatrist

Kazeem Badmus

Aconsultant psychiatrist with Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Dr Adeoye Oyewole, has said lack of proper stress management kills journalists discreetly.

Oyewole said Nigerian journalists carry Nigeria on their shoulders at a mental cost and struggle daily to gather informaon despite humilia ng cultural and bureaucra c bo lenecks.

According to him, the physical and mental stress journalists are exposed to daily created a mental disequilibrium which manifests psychologically and physically which, if not managed properly, could lead to a mental shutdown.

He disclosed this on Monday in Osogbo at a seminar organised by Fountain University for prac sing journalists and