Awareness

Cimmerianism to Pollyannaism: A Shift from Gloominess to Cheerfulness

Thinking is considered to be s higher mental ability. Human beings as beings are more cognitively advanced and have progressed more than other species, making use of most of the resources. “Sur...

Exam: test of ability or dreaded reality

Exams; a little too familiar words for students all over the place. For some its test of their abilities and for some it becomes the dreaded word. Only hearing about exams give many students goos...

Illness V/S Disease

Illness vs Disease. These two words are commonly used interchangeably in medicine and in common language too. The similarities make them interchangeable and the difference between the two is what...

Depression is not rare

There has been a significant rise in the number of people with depression all over the world. WHO estimates that more than 300 million people globally are living with depression. Depression can h...

Suicide: Threat to Youth

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults after the number of deaths due to motor vehicles. Teenage years represent an anxious and unsettling period for boys ...

The Funeral Rituals and its Psychological Effect on Individuals

To a living organism, life is the most important thing which starts at birth and ends with death. In the case of human beings, between both of these phases, they go through several developmental ...

Psychological impact of news and its ways of coping

Day in and day out, we are surrounded by news. People turned to news in order to stay connected to the world. Though, news can be stressful at times due to which many of us experience anxiety lev...

Putrid smell of professional envy

Once triggered, it is difficult to stop. It assumes a life of its own. Just as other instinctual forces programmed into nature’s survival mechanism, the deadliest of all sins called envy has a ...

Expelled from school? A huge risk the future

Mr D aged 16yrs was studying in class 12 in an in Pvt School in Chennai. He came to consult me with his parents. He was upset and his parents were hopeless about his behaviour. The issue was arou...

Cannabis..... Really

Cannabis is a common substance of abuse during adolescence among school, college going students and street children in India. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 147 million people ...

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