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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,

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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Challenging Yet Attainable: Complete Mental Health with ADHD

When can you be in complete mental health? When you are free from mental illnesses like substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, and suicidality, when you feel happiness almost daily or satisfied with life in the past month, and when you

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Effectiveness Of Interventions In Countering Covid-19 Pandemonium: A Psychological Perspective

The year of 2019 concluded with change, as the only constant. The unpropitious realm of 2020 began on 11 March when the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak of Covid-19 as a pandemic. Researchers, doctors as well as the general