Kolkata, June 15: Revealing an alarming flip side to today's fast-paced modern life, a country-wide chain of health clinics has reported a 10-fold rise in cases of stress-related disorders in major cities over the last one year. The survey, undertaken a health care chain in its 16 branches all over the country, has found that 10 times more people in big cities like Kolkata, Bangalore, Lucknow, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Vadodara reported with various stress-induced illnesses this year than in 2002.
"Some of the most common causes of stress among the patients who reported at the clinics were stress of fear of job loss, unreasonable expectations and deadlines, separation from a loved one due to death, divorce or illness, alcoholism or drug abuse in the family," Dr Mukesh Batra, chairman and managing director of Dr Batra's Positive Health Clinic told.

Batra, whose efforts in evolving a systematic homeopathic protocol in the country have won him many laurels, was here to address a seminar on how to manage modern day stress.
The eminent homeopath said, of the 25,000 patients treated at his Kolkata clinic in the last two-and-half years, over five per cent cases were of stress alone.
Among the other most prevalent reasons of stress identified in the survey were significant decrease in family income, poor personal health or the feeling of being unattractive, decrease in social interaction and deteriorating living conditions. Bureau Report