This is like a scene from a drama: a furious young lady, complaining loudly, smashes her enemy on the head with a big hammer. Both the “enemy" and the hammer are made of plastic.
A similar story like this is played out almost everyday, but not on the stage, but in a small room at Lingdangge Community Service Center in Tianjin, Beijing’s neighboring municipality in north China.
In this way people can release their psychological pressures in the “psychological decompression room" at the community service center.
The 40 square-meter room has seven compartments. Subdued light shines in and fresh flowers heighten the relaxing atmosphere.
Liu Qing, who is in charge of the center, said that people Tuesday feel more pressure and are in great need of psychotherapy. The decompression room is set to serve this purpose.
Some clients who have visited here said that they feel much better after venting their penned up frustrations in such an environment.
They can discuss their troubles with the consultants who will chat with them like old friends. In the clinics, however, they are more likely to become nervous because of the “professional" atmosphere there.
Since many of the clients are middle-aged and elderly people, the community service center also invited some middle-aged laid-off workers as visiting consultants.
Psychological problems such as anxiety and depression are the biggest threat to the health of Chinese people, who usually pay more attention to their physical health problems rather than the psychological ones.
Depression is the No.1 psychological illness, according to some Chinese and American psychiatrists. And suicide is the most serious problem affecting people between the ages of 15 and 35.
(The Dragon News Net)
