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Mental Disorders Overtake Cancer and Heart Disease as the World’s Biggest Cause of Disability

Mental disorders have become the leading cause of disability across the world, overtaking cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and musculoskeletal disorders, according to a major global study published in The Lancet. Researchers say the findings reflect a worsening mental health crisis affecting millions of people

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Emotional Dysregulation as a Core Mechanism in Personality Disorders

We often confess to reacting in an overwhelmed way, shouting in anger, uncontrollable crying and impulsive behaviours. This affects our daily routine, work, relationships, and mental health. Emotions are a way of expressing our feelings strongly and help us to

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Interoceptive Prediction Error in Panic Disorder: The Hidden Mechanism Behind Panic Attacks

Sheetal is a 21-year-old B.Tech graduate student. She is currently in her 4th year and is focused on bagging a placement. Twelve companies have already completed their interview for the placements, out of which Sheetal was not even eligible for

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When Nothing Feels Good: Understanding Anhedonia in Mood Disorders

Approximately 70% of individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) experience anhedonia, the progressive, pervasive loss of the capacity for pleasure, motivation, and connection that researchers now recognise as one of the most clinically significant and most persistently undertreated features

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Fear of Separation: An Anxiety Disorder

When I first started going to pre- primary school, I saw my friends, including me, also crying so much before entering the classroom, hugging their parents tightly with a feeling of fear and did not want to come inside the

Research

Brain Damage and Neural Changes in Schizophrenia: How the Disorder Affects the Brain

This research explores how schizophrenia, a chronic mental disorder, is linked to lasting changes in the brain. Rather than being caused by just one factor, it involves complex neural disruptions that affect thinking, behaviour and emotion. The study focuses on

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The Silent Struggle in Relationships: Supporting a Partner with Bipolar Disorder

Taking care of a person with Bipolar disorder can be like trying to keep pace with a song that keeps changing when you are trying to tune in. There are some days when the weeks just whiz by in a

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Cognitive Challenges in People with Schizophrenia and Personality Disorders

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the way a person thinks, feels, and perceives reality. Individuals may experience confusion, fear, and uncertainty about what is real. They may struggle to understand others, trust their own thoughts, or correctly interpret

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Love Beyond Labels: Understanding Mood Disorders in Dating and Relationships

Relationships rarely unfold in a straight line. They move through slow mornings, unexpected stresses, changing routines and those quiet moments when you’re trying to understand what your partner is really feeling. Most couples learn each other’s patterns over time, when

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What Is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder? A Complete Guide

Compulsive Personality Disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is a long-term tendency towards perfectionism, control and excessive standards that determine the thoughts, behaviours and attitudes of an individual towards others. The disorder is hard to identify at its initial stages