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Awareness

Mental Health Issues in Cancer Patients During Treatment

Cancer diagnosis and the treatment that follows can be among the most severe challenges that face not only physical health but also mental wellness. The mental experience of the struggle with cancer is one capable of deep disappointment, causing anxiety,

Life Style

Sedentary Straits

Ever since the dawn of the pandemic and the lockdowns, people have been looking inward, figuratively, and quite literally. While the sudden hurdles that have knocked down billions of people around the globe need hardly be recounted, the toll that

Awareness Self Help

The Hoodie Culture: Fighting insecurities and vulnerabilities one hoodie at a time

In nearly a decade of working in schools, I’ve consistently observed how each year introduces new generational shifts in children of all ages. It’s intriguing to witness how every new generation brings forth its unique trends, behaviors, and values. While

Health Social

The Hidden Effects of Vaping Addiction on Mental Health

The definition of addiction is a chronic, recurrent condition marked by obsessive drug seeking and usage despite negative outcomes. Because it causes functional alterations to the brain circuits responsible for reward, stress, and self-control, it is regarded as a brain

Self Help

Erotomania: The Delusion of Being Loved by Everyone

Erotomania is an uncommon mental illness defined by the enduring hallucination (fixed, erroneous belief) that someone else loves them from a distance. In psychiatry, the illness has a lengthy history and is referred to the de Clérambault’s syndrome. More recently,

Education

The Psychology behind Scapegoating

The history of the word “scapegoat” begins way back in the 16th century, when the Jewish community placed their sins onto the described ritual animal in preparation for Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. A key part of Yom Kippur,

Social

The Correlation Between Hair Loss and Mental Illness

Scalp hair is more important socially and psychologically than it is biologically to humans. Hair serves no purpose in humans other than providing cranial cushioning and protection from the sun’s rays. Beyond its socioeconomic significance, hair can become an important

News

Childhood Insomnia Can Create Problems in Adulthood: Study

According to the result of a new study, conducted with participants from the Penn State Child Cohort, the symptoms of persistent insomnia start to arise in childhood and continue through young adulthood. This one is the first study to find

Therapy

What Is EMDR Therapy?

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (Shapiro, 2001) was created in 1987 to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is based on the adaptive information processing concept (Shapiro 2007). EMDR is an individual therapy that is normally administered once

Positive

Helpful Breathing Techniques for Meditation

“Fight or flight” is often referred to as the stress reaction. It is what the body does when it prepares to face or avoid danger. When used correctly, the stress response may help us overcome a variety of obstacles. However,