Nine (9) earlyf mental health signs.

Understanding early mental health signs can save lives and property, time and money. Business leaders need to rise above the mental health leadership bar to provide a high level of leadership. If the business leader hasn’t managed the worker's mental health needs at workplaces, they are yet to master the people managing skills.

The workers also need to play a proactive role to help themselves, then just waiting for the help to come their way. If you are feeling stressed or worried; you need immediate support to free your life from the weight of your mind.

 All managers and middle business leaders must be equipped with mental health knowledge and skills so that they can early establish early warning mental health signs. By doing so, they are better placed to apply early preventive measures to reduce any possible injuries and damages.

Nine (9) early mental health signs:

Feeling worried or anxious:
You may feel worried and anxious about something that is not going right with you. Even if it means a small thing but it can add up to big issues. People who do not act end up in setbacks in life.

Feeling depressed or unhappy:

In life, we want to increase happiness than sadness. If you are feeling depressed and unhappy about something, you need to get it out quickly so that you are not chained to those issues before you. Our lives need freedom, not chained to unhappiness.

Emotional outburst.

Humans are rational beings and when things go wrong, they react with an emotional outburst. If you are experiencing an explosion on little issues, then you need the support of a psychotherapist or psychologist.

Sleep problems.

The people with the problem, sleep a lot or are sleepless. If you are experiencing a sleeping problem due to some internal issues, the best thing to do is seek counselling support.

Weight or appetite changes.

People with mental health issues eat a lot or eat less, thus gaining weight or losing weight. So, do not sleep on the issues that may chain your life into deep problems. Wake up and do something about it.

Quite or withdrawn.

People with lots of mental issues withdraw from social engagement and isolate themselves. The weight of the mind can push them away from social engagement, thus affecting overall well-being.

Substance abuse.

Many people with mental conditions. report to drugs and alcohol to relieve or treat their worries, but they offer temporary relief as after the happiness, the problems remain.

Feeling guilty or worthless.

When you are feeling guilty or worthless, this is a sign of mental health condition, so you need to seek a counsellor's support.

Changes in behaviour or feelings.

Behaviour change indicates mental health conditions, so if you are experiencing a change in your behaviour or others, counselling is the best place to help yourself.

Let us know if you are going through mental health conditions @ healthylivingbusiness20@gmail.com 

Symptomatic treatment for coronavirus-COVID19.

Coronavirus is a viral infection. No antibiotics can kill coronavirus. The coronavirus can be treated symptomatically.

What do you do?

Homemade treatment for dry cough sore throat:

You can do the following things to relieve yourself:

1. Just drink a pure cup of hot water. Drink as many as you can. It will relieve your dry cough and sore throat symptoms.
2. Get a ripe lemon, wash it well then cut it into half and sequence half of it into the 250 ml cup of hot water. It’s now ready for you to drink without adding sugar. If you need sugar, you can add some sugar, but I would recommend pure lemon warm water would be better.  This will help reduce the pain and inflammation caused by a sore throat and dry cough.
3. Go to the Pharmacy store and ask the shop assistant for sore throat relief cough medicine, or sore throat relief chewing tablets.

Treatment for fever and body aches & pains:

1. Get 2 X Pandol for four hours [adult does] to reduce fever and body aches. 
2. Soak your body with lukewarm water that can cool your temperature down
3. Drink plenty of house temperature water 
4. Sponge your body with cool water
5. Do not warm your house with a heater [you can make your judgment about where your locality is; especially those in cool temperature zones].

How to stream yourself?  

1. Sequence lemongrass, olive leaf, flowers or any tree leaf that are traditionally recommended in your area and smash garlic, ginger and lemon, add all into the mixture. 
2. Now fill the jar with water and bring it to boiling point.
3. Get a large sheet of bed-sheet or blanket. 
4. You move closer to the dish and move the dish between your legs [both legs, not close].
5. Get someone to pour the boiled water into the dish.
6. Cover all your body with the bed sheet or blanket.
7. The stream comes will out from the dish, so use your nostril to breathe in until you feel okay.

How to stream all houses?

1. Sequence lemongrass, olive leaf, flowers or any tree leaf that are traditionally recommended in your area and smash garlic, ginger and lemon, add all into the mixture.
2. Boil/heat stone on fire, ensure the stone is very hot.
3. Get pot/clay pot and fill the pot with smashed leaf and garlic, ginger & lemon [etc]. 
4. When the stone is brought to a boiling point, put it inside the pot.
5. Then pour the cool water slowly and the house should be on stream.
6. Take a deep stream breath through your nostril and release it out through your mouth.
7. Continue until you feel okay.

Home foods.

1. Eat plenty of vitamin C base fruits to boost your immunity system.
2. Drink plenty of house temperature water or warm pure water.
3. Eat good food but the right size to stay on top of the coronavirus

Rest & sleep.

You must allow your body to get enough rest and sleep so that your body fights the infection.

Seek medical attention.

If your breathing becomes worse and difficult to breathe, quickly seek medical attention.

Important note.
Be clear that the home treatment plans do not cure coronavirus but it reduces coronavirus symptoms.

Basic Facts on Coronavirus (COVID19).

If you’re infected with coronavirus, you will likely experience a mild or asymptomatic. This can be treated easily at home, so you and your family do not need to press a panic button which may lead to other mental health conditions.

The coronavirus is easily manageable at home, but if symptoms get worse, then you need to seek medical attention immediately.

What is Coronavirus?

Coronavirus is a recently discovered virus. It has not been found previously in human beings. The virus is said to be a family of viruses that can easily transmit between animals and human beings that cause common cold to middle east respiratory syndrome [MERS CoV and serve acute syndrome [SARS CoV].

Symptoms of coronavirus

If you are infected with the coronavirus, you are likely to experience the following symptoms. The symptoms from 1 to 5 are a strong indicator of likely you are infected.

1.       FEVER (a temperature above 37.8°C or skin that feels hot to touch).
2.       SHORTNESS OF BREATH and difficulty breathing.
3.       FATIGUE.
4.       HEADACHES.
5.       SORE THROAT.
6.       A new, continuous cough.
7.       Aches and pains.

Ways to prevent Coronavirus

1.       Social distance of 1.5 meters [reduce the number of people in your house]
2.       Isolate yourself at home if you have any symptoms of coronavirus and avoid any strenuous physical activity whilst you are unwell.
3.       Personal hygiene: always wash your hand before food and after being at the toilet/ or completing any tasks.
4.       Cover your mouth with your elbow to cough
5.       Get treated for underlying medical illness
6. Eat plenty of Vitamin C base fruits

How to treat symptomatically at home

1.       Drink plenty of fluids. drink enough water so that your pee is clear in colour.
2.       AVOID ALCOHOL as this will make you more dehydrated.
3.       Get plenty of rest. You should isolate yourself at home if you have any symptoms of coronavirus and avoid any strenuous activity whilst you are unwell.
4.       Eat plenty of fruits to boost the vitamin level in your body
5.       Use over-the-counter medicines to treat some of your symptoms.
6.       Stream yourself with lemongrass etc.
7.       Eat plenty of fruits & veggies
8.       Drink a cup of lemon hot water or drink pure warm water. You can drink as many glasses of lemon/pure or hot water as much as you want.

Seeking further medical support

If your conditions get worse like shortness of breath, continuous high fever, dry & continue cough; seek medical attention quickly.

Lack of counselling services

Lack of professional counselling Services & lifestyle health programs is sinking in Papua New Guinea.

Many organisations, both public and private sectors are yet to realise the need to employ well-trained Counsellors in their organisations. Many Workers are mentally affected and they are not realising the full potentials of their professions.

There are no professionally trained graduated Clinical Psychologists attached in all major public and private health facilities. The major health settings only provide physical treatment but forget about the very heart of life…The Mind…As a result, there is no complete treatment provided to those who visit them.

 In addition, there is a lack of lifestyle health programs conducted in the country. Every year, death notices are published in the print media that high profile people are dying from a heart attack, heart stroke or diabetics etc.

Every year lawyers, judges and top elites are dying from a heart attack or heat stroke, or diabetics. I am hearing that we are losing so many National Court Judges to heart attacks and stroke.  Many are having high blood pressure.

The top government officials lack knowledge of the kind of services requires to improve work performance to increase productivity.

In some sections of the community, there are Social Welfare Officers but no lifestyle health programs.

Generally, the worker in Papua New Guinea is unhealthy. Their physical appearance is simply not encouraging, they are overweight, have big bellies hanging down, cannot walk properly which will affect their health.

Many of these officers do not attend yearly or even quarterly health check-ups or do not seek professional psychological counselling services so that many of their issues can be sorted out professionally, thus take full control of their life.

Papua New Guinea, as a country, needs counselling services and lifestyle health programs in every section of the society if the country wants to produce a healthy and fit society.

Lifestyle Diseases in workplace

Any successive government fail to effectively address one of the fastest emerging public health issues in Papua New Guinea. The health system by now realigns its health services towards prevention programs.

The lifestyle disease is silently but at the fastest rate killing highly skilled workers png-losing-elites-through-lifestyle-diseases. Due to a lack of awareness on the lifestyle disease programs, the highly skilled workforce are becoming victims of lifestyle diseases thus affecting family income. The Papua New Guinea government's ability to raise tax income will also be affected thus shift in national budget allocations to other development priority areas. The story below is an example of a lifestyle disease (diabetic) that has destroyed one of the skilled Industrial Worker.

John (not his name), father of two beautiful children, age 38, a highly-skilled Industrial Worker. He works for many companies. He lives with his family in one of the towns in Papua New Guinea.

His lifestyle.
He drinks 12-24 bottles of beer every weekend. When an opportunity (friends offering him a beer) pops up during weekdays, he drinks beer between 6-12 bottles. Coke is "half of his life" that’s how he puts it. He takes 2-4 bottles of coke per day. In a week, 14-28 bottles. He takes 4 sweet cups of coffee with 2-5 teaspoons of sugar per day. On daily meal: family eat white rice, white bread/scone, tinned fish, veggies and fried foods. He’s a heavy smoker and betel nut chewer.

Like everyone, he did not care about his life until he felt sick. One day he went to the hospital and did his full blood count.

 Laboratory clinical results.
Glucose (sugar) level was high and elevated blood pressure.

Treatment.

1. The doctor prescript diabetic’s medication. 
2. He also consults lifestyle health advisers where they develop a lifestyle modification plan. 
3. Continue follow-up messages were sent as reinforcement messages to reduce the level of sugar. 

However, he fails to adhere to all the health plans as well as treatment intake.

On the first health consult, his glucose reading was 8.5 as indicates on the graph. After the first consult, he was faithful to medicine and follow all the healthy choices. On the second consult, the glucose dropped to the controllable level of 6.0mmol/L.

However, he was not consistent with the healthy choices and medication. From the 3rd to the 8th health consults, his glucose readings were very high, which slightly dropped at the controllable level on the 9th consult.

Nevertheless, he did not put his health as the number one life business, thus leading to uncaring lifestyle choices.

The condition becomes worse which saw him losing his life. The uncured sore appears on his right toe. The doctor chopped the toes off. However, the condition got worse that leads him to lose his right leg to diabetics. As a result, he’s now a crippled man.

Due to uncaring lifestyle choices, more burden is now on his wife to look after him as well as the two children. This will setback the children's education, and their upbringing.

Finally, the man died from diabetes and left behind two children with his wife.

Organically growing local food in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea produces some of the world’s best organically farmed garden foods and fruits. These are some of the locally grown organic fresh veggies and fruits.

All over Papua New Guinea, local markets sell many of these fresh veggies and fruits at affordable prices. They are good for health than those manufactured goods sold in the stores.

The lifestyle disease in Papua New Guinea is avoidable as we have organically grown foods and fruits available at local markets. The choice people make will determine their health.

Why are people running too high on carbohydrate drinks like coke than a local produce fresh coconut juice? The cost of coconut juice is cheap than the high sugar-based drinks like coke. Figure #4 is coconut juice from Markham valley. It cost just K1.00 and Coke cost K2.00 to K3.50.

The important message to ALL Papua New Guineans is: Once you hit the sickbed, the chair you are sitting on will depart from you. All the happiness and dreams will go under the bridge.

Run after good health than the material wealth. The glory of this world is only added unto people with good health, so follow healthy lifestyle choices.