In Nigeria, a rage room to let off some steam
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00:00This is how some people in Lagos are having a smashing time.
00:07For Olariak Bikibey Akim, beating up old screens and bottles
00:12helped him contain his stress about the worst cost of living crisis in his country.
00:17While I was smashing, a lot was running through my mind.
00:22Like the current status of living in Nigeria.
00:29It's gone high. You have to battle with a lot of things.
00:32Cost of feeding, transportation and all that.
00:35Then my take-home cannot actually take me home.
00:38So there's a lot to be venting for.
00:42Others come to vent their anger for daily stressors including traffic jams,
00:46notorious for trapping drivers for hours in the heat.
00:50The shadow rate room, said to be the first of its kind in Nigeria,
00:54offers a safe base for people to let out pent-up emotions.
00:58For 7500 Naira, about 5 US dollars,
01:02customers are left alone with protective gear and a sledgehammer,
01:06in a room for a 30-minute session.
01:09The items are later recycled.
01:11The owner says the idea came during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
01:15after he lost his mother and struggled with work.
01:19The entrepreneur is also a physician and stresses
01:22the rate room is not a replacement for therapy.
01:28A rate room is not a therapy session.
01:31However, a therapy session can begin or end with a rate room.
01:37What we do here is to help people discover
01:41that sometimes therapy is needed.
01:44And this happens a lot of times after their session.
01:49Mental health services are still unaffordable for many in Nigeria.
01:53By typing into the panel Rage,
01:55shadow rate users may have found an alternative outlet.