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After days on the road, some drivers turn to alcohol and drugs to relieve their stress, according to the center.
“Slowly some drivers just skip that fine line of taking alcohol for relaxation, and slip into addiction,” said Mudassara Anwar, supervisor of the Mental Health and Geriatrics Program at the center.
Anwar said the addiction then leads to domestic violence, fam- ily breakups and job losses, ultimately ending up in depression.
Then the stigma and shame of mental health sink in too, with patients refusing to seek counselling, she said.
When they finally decide to seek help, it would be too late, Anwar added.
She also said that many truckers “stress out’ over their inabil- ity to properly supervise their children.
“Their kids do not do good in school, or they get engaged in activities which are not good
for them. They are basically
not completing their education
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She said the typical South Asian trucker is “under social pressure, community pressure
and in-law pressure”, all con- tributing factors of stress.
Anwar leads a team of sev- eral case managers and other support staff, who are trained to offer “culturally appropri- ate” advice to patients in their own languages such as Punjabi and Hindi.
Mudassara Anwar with some of her team members.
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The center offers a variety of free programs on mental health and addiction, and also works with other care partners in the community.
A common complaint among the truckers is that they feel iso- lated and not engaged enough in the society, said case manager Parneet Waraich.
“And then they also feel that people judge them for not being educated, and not being ‘classy enough’. So, they always have to go an extra mile to get themselves validated.”
One of the cases the center dealt with recently was that of a 36-year-old trucker who suffered concussion and other injuries in a collision.
Soon he was diagnosed with psychosis and schizophrenia.
With no money and no one to help, the patient lived on milk until the center got involved with the local food bank to deliver hot meals to him. The patient was later sent to a therapist for further treatment.
The center, under the leadership of founder and CEO Dr. Baldev Mutta, provides help to about 1,000 people each year.
Talking therapy
Last summer, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto said that people of South Asian origin are
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