Category: Mental Health
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Coping with Grief and Loss
It’s not easy for me to talk about coping with Grief and Loss because I lost my father to Brain cancer very recently and the pain is still fresh. But I need to do this. Even though Papa was diagnosed with a rare and fatal cancer, we were not prepared to see him suffer […]
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5 New Year Resolutions you can Keep
Most of us like to start the New Year wishing for great things to achieve we often make a New Year Resolution or a list of New Year Resolutions. Predictably though most of us end up not sticking to those resolutions. Then as the current year comes to an end, we either chalk up another […]
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Facts you didn’t know about Friendship Benches in Qatar
How the idea of Friendship Benches in Qatar came about? As the world got caught in the FIFA World Cup fever, another lesser know movement was also coming up at the same time, namely the Friendship benches in Qatar. On the 10th of October 2022, FIFA, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, WISH, […]
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12 Commonly Ignored Symptoms of Anxiety Disorder
Whenever we talk about symptoms of Anxiety disorder, images of worried, tense, and fearful individuals come to our mind. Anxiety is a nagging feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome. Often it is a feeling of fearing and expecting the worst to happen. They often feel drained and tired or […]
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World Mental Health Day 2022
World Mental Health Day: Creating Mental Health Awareness and Making Services accessible to all 10 October is observed as World Mental Health day every year to Promote, Protect and Restore Mental health of all. The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a mental health challenge and also highlighted our inadequate awareness and preparedness for tackling mental […]
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Difficulty Swallowing, Stumbling , Fumbling , Ranting – These could be signs of Alzheimer’s Disease
Underlining an alarming trend , the World Health organization has recently listed Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately women are being affected far more with Alzheimer’s than men claiming 65% of deaths among women. The Incidence of Alzheimer’s disease has grown by almost 125% from […]
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10 Doctor Recommended ways to feel Happier
As the title of this post suggests, today we shall talk about how to feel happier in life. But before we discuss ways to be happier, let me first share this beautiful quote with you . “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When […]
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THIRTEEN REASONS WHY – A BOOK REVIEW
The book “Thirteen Reasons Why” gained a lot of attention when Netflix started streaming a series based on it. I have not seen the series yet so I cannot comment on the similarities between […]
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Going Back to School – How to cope with Anxiety in children during COVID 19 Pandemic
After two years of wreaking havoc new COVID cases are coming down and the government has announced a gradual re-opening of schools and colleges. Undoubtedly this decision will help the cause of education because online education has not been as successful in imparting the same level of teaching, attention, and mentoring to students as the […]
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Mental Health Disorders in Children and How to Cope with them
(Image courtesy – Canva.com ) The Covid19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of mental health in our daily lives like never before. Mental health was earlier a taboo subject , it was a word used only for the seriously mentally ill. Children have been forced to stay holed up at home with no company and […]