negative dimensions like burn out and secondary traumatic or serious stress are also present though not significantly high the answer may have its root in stress and diabetes in teachers the study took into consideration independent variables such as age gender and marital status and included three dimensions such as compassion satisfaction burnout and secondary traumatic stress severe stress to assess the quality of life teachers should inculcate a positive attitude about their profession and standard in society and take proper diet theres also a difference in compassion satisfaction level based on the age group of teachers speaking about the study head of the psychology department at au prof mvr raju said quality of life qol means general wellbeing of a person in society and is related to the individuals development both externally and internally such as physical psychological and social development its not uncommon to come across reports of school teachers being too harsh on students or beating them up elaborating on the paradoxical role of stress prof raju said when the teachers are under excess stress due to huge workload they would carry the work home and their interpersonal relationship with family members suffered due to this pressure thus affecting their quality of life ever wondered what prompts most teachers to behave in a noncompassionate way towards their students those below 44 years of age were found to have higher levels of compassion satisfaction than those above 45 years of age about the feeling of burn out also increased and it led to experience anxiety conflict pressure or frustration on the other hand lack of work or being idle resulted in getting involved in gossiping about others and office politics and also resulted in stress andhra universitys psychology department recently conducted a study on the quality of life among diabetic teachers in north coastal districts of andhra pradesh for which 525 school teachers were chosen from the visakhapatnam vizianagaram and srikakulam districts visakhapatnam psychological intervention in the form of counselling or therapies should be undertaken if required the bad stress triggered negative chemical reaction in the body aggravating their already existing diabetes therefore a little stress or good stress is important to achieve to get motivated to work to take proper decisions and communication and for progress the teaching community in north coastal ap were chosen because the area has a high rate of incidence of diabetes in the country the fallouts of stress rajasekhar said these can be categorised into four types physical symptoms including frustration anxiety conflict cardiovascular problem hypertension and diabetes behavioural symptoms including affected thought process feeling of uneasiness attitude towards students colleagues and seniors psychological symptoms including memory loss and workrelated including breakdown in communication demotivation absenteeism and poor performancethe study therefore recommended that to enhance the compassion satisfaction level of teachers activities such as meditation yoga gardening physical exercise sports and recreational facilities should be provided interestingly not just workload but lack of adequate work or joblessness also added to the