The mental health issues in the police forces here, the trends, are, alarming, because these are the hardworking men and women who put their lives on the line to keep us, ordinary citizens safe and sound, and if they're not mentally well, then, where does that leave us??? Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Female Officers Have Been Found to Seek Out Psychiatric Help More, the Male Police Officers of Over Age Forty Found to Have Suppressed Themselves the Most
The clinical psychologist, Wu who'd worked for seven years as the Tainan City Police Department's Counseling Committee Wu said, the police can't expect what will happen at work, and they worked as the emotional trash can for the local residents, handling the most negative of things that happen in their local communities, plus, the work is on rotating shifts, and, the ranks, the status, it'd made it harder for them, to ask for help, that was why they are at a higher risk of developing depressive disorders.
officer under duress, but nobody sees it, because they're supposed to look out for everybody else, and they don't have anyone helping them with their, stresses...artwork from online
Wu stated, that all of the occupations has different kinds of stress, but for most of the nine-to-fivers, their work schedules are set, and they can expect what goes on at work, but for the police forces, there are, a ton of things that can't be predicted, like going out to a car crash, domestic violence, and other negative things, plus the pressures from the members of the local communities placed upon these officers, the expectations, the orders of their superiors, they'd accumulated the psychological stresses long-term.
She said, that the officers on the rotating shifts often develop the sleep troubles, are easily annoyed, can't focus, and this may also, affect their family relations. "When the kids wake, they either see that their fathers are still asleep, or that their fathers aren't at home", the spouses would start to question, "the wives would starting wondering if the husbands working late are having affairs", the family support is the most important of psychological wellbeing of the police officers, but they'd lacked the time to be with their loved ones due to their work.
to prevent this from happeninng...artwork from online
"When the officers started having psychological conditions, they'd feared the most of getting labeled", she'd told, worried that their superiors may look at them weird, which will in turn affect their evaluations, or prevent them from climbing higher up on the ladder, and not sought out the psychological counseling that they're in need of. She'd observed the officers who'd gone to counseling, found, that sixty to seventy-percent were around the ages of thirty, women outnumbered men by a little, and that men under age forty are found to be the group who'd suppressed themselves the most, this comes from the beliefs of "manliness" of the police culture, believing, that asking for help is a show of weakness, but in her observations of recent times, more and more police officers are willing to seek out counseling to get the help they're in need of.
Wu told, that the counseling for the police is anonymous, that there would be a safe and secure environment for the officers to "be encouraged to disclose", providing the numbers of the officers' registration at the police only on records, and the contents of her treatment were revolved around work, parent-child relations or interpersonal relationships only, unless there's the reasons for concerns, or the officers getting treated had given the consent, the counseling offices would not notify the stations where the officers worked, and, there was the officers who'd become, overly anxious of the work, and, after consent had been given by the officer, the unit the officers worked for was notified, and, the unit of work adjusted the working means for the officers.
And so, this is how the officers who needed help can get what they needed from the professional counselors, and, police is also, human beings, they have the same kinds of stresses that we all go through, sometimes, they're under, even MORE duress from their line of work, and, they are encouraged to get all the help they are in need of, but, the culture, the stereotypes are what's keeping them from staying healthy mentally and, this is on a societal level, not just the level of the, individuals, it's this line of work, and the stereotypes of what police should be: tough, able-bodied, helpful to the citizens, that's, keeping the police officers from asking and receiving the needed help they required, to continue being healthy in the body, and the psyche, so they can, handle even more stresses from their, work.
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