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Happiness: Is not a destination, but a Journey

Happiness is not a final destination instead a path on which we have to walk to create an optimistic life. Mehezabin Dordi, a clinical psychologist at Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, explained in an interview with HT Lifestyle, that “Joy, pleasure, contentment, and fulfillment are all emotions associated with happiness. Happiness is closely linked to […]

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Demystifying Weight Gain

Weight gain is commonly caused by overeating, eating the incorrect sorts of food, or consuming a lot of sugar without getting enough exercise. However, there could be some unanticipated reasons for the rising waistline that weren’t usually considered. Hormones, medicine, stress, and a lot of other variables can all contribute to weight gain. Dr. Swathi […]

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Children’s Mental health is at stake as HSE audits main focus on ADHD

Many children experience anxiety and worry from time to time, and as a result, they may act out in disruptive ways. Children without a mental disorder may perform differently than children with a recognised mental problem, and children with the same diagnosed mental disease may have different strengths and limitations in their development, coping, and […]

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Impact of Personality Traits on Cognitive Abilities

Do personality traits affect cognitive abilities? American Psychological Association (APA) agrees by suggesting that organized and self-disciplined people have fewer odds of developing mental illnesses at an older age. The effect of three personality traits, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and extraversion, on cognitive performance, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI), dementia, and mortality risk at an older age, […]

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Is telepsychiatry a bridge or a barrier to mental health?

The rising use of the internet for psychiatric services has changed how mental health evaluations are conducted. Tele psychiatry bridges the gap in obtaining treatment due to the current global health crisis, however it comes at a price, which reduces its effectiveness. The virtual approach, on the other hand, offers a barrier: limits in rapport […]

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Ensuring Psychological Health during Pandemic: Tips from HKU clinicians

COVID-19 has affected the millions of lives, from prolonged closures of schools making it difficult for students to attain their rightful education, to adverse work arrangements such as no pay leave or unemployment. This disruption in daily routines caused psychological distress and developed mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. A series of studies on […]

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First Psychological Support Centre in Abuja: This NGO does more than just concern

PROJECT PINK BLUE (PPB) is a cancer organization involved in raising awareness about cancer, free of cost or cost-effective screenings for cancer, support for cancer patients, patient navigation, patient health and wellness advocacy, fundraising to support people battling with cancer, research on detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer, and oncology training. As a next […]

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Health News Research

Questioning the Evidence of Autism Interventions: The Right Foot Forward

Professor Andrew Whitehouse, Head of the Autism Research Team at Telethon Kids Institute and Director of CliniKids and his colleagues reported that few autism interventions used in the clinic are backed by solid evidence in 2020, but the complaints against him that followed shocked him. The Autism Intervention Meta-Analysis, also known as Project AIM, in […]

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Organic-Still Panic: Cannabis and its Cognitive Effects

Cannabis is the most widely produced and used illicit drug among humans and it is the third most commonly used controlled substance globally. Its popular use can be attributed to its immediate effect of a pleasant euphoria and a sense of relaxation, and to its less common effects like heightened sensory perception, feelings of joy, […]

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The Psychology of “Dealing with Dissonance”

We often find ourselves in crisis when the world operates disproportionately to our values or meaning or the purpose, we look out of life. As we perceive the world around, we find ourselves constantly in a dynamic conflict between ‘attempts of an outer world to impose an actuality on us’ (and) ‘our efforts to transform […]

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