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Overcoming Social Anxiety: The Complete Toolkit to Build Lasting Social Confidence

The sensation of intense physiological and emotional pain upon being invited socially, normally followed by the sensation of a “gut punch” or sudden visceral reaction, is an abnormal manifestation of social anxiety or social phobia. It is a condition where

Health

Dissociative Disorders: Trapped in Your Mind’s Emergency Shelter  

Life doesn’t pitch curveballs. It uses sledgehammers. And what happens when the weight of everything, fear, anguish, and noise, crushes down? Your mind does what trapped things do: It flees. It’s as if you’re in your body but not truly present. It’s

Self Help Therapy

Alternative interventions to Journaling

Therapeutic journaling refers to the process of writing down thoughts and feelings with the aim of provoking self-examination and personal development. It is a strong intervening tool for an emotional working-through, progressive emotional functioning, and achieving heightened levels of awareness

Awareness

Impact of Irregular Shift Patterns on Mental Health Care Workers’ Well-Being

Mental health treatment is a particularly demanding discipline that demands around-the-clock availability of services. Patients with acute psychiatric symptoms, suicidal ideation, or behavioural emergencies cannot be kept waiting; they require services at all times. To provide them with such uniform

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Psychology of Psychologist Behind Diagnosis: How DSM-5 Guides Mental Health Professionals to Diagnose Anxiety Disorders

Ever wondered how it is determined by your therapist whether your anxiety is ‘normal’ or a disorder?  The first step towards answering such questions is a proper diagnosis. Furthermore, this requires a proper criterion for each disorder, which is standardised

Research

The Anterior Temporal Lobe in Social-Emotional Processing and Anxiety

Anxiety and mood disorders share overlapping implications and deficits in emotional processing. While limbic structures like the amygdala are well studied, new and emerging evidence suggests the role of the Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL) as a crucial hub for social-emotional

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India’s Workforce Health Crisis: The Rising Impact of Chronic Diseases

Chronic diseases, especially noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), weigh heavily on India’s labour force. NCDs account for roughly 60% of national mortality, affecting economic productivity and health systems. The major causes of NCD-related mortality are cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and

Parenting Self Help

Generational Silence and Emotional Healing: Why Speaking Up Matters

Have you ever felt that certain things in your family are never spoken about? For many people,  speaking up in the family system might seem like an easy thing to do, like sharing a feeling,  giving an opinion, or dealing

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5 Acupuncture Benefits for Mental Health

In today’s stressed-out world, which also sees an upsurge of anxiety and other emotional issues, there is great value in holistic methods of mental health care. Acupuncture, which comes from a Traditional Chinese Medicine background, is a practice that is

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The Psychology of Hope Effect: How Prayers and Spiritual Rituals Help People Cope 

In times of uncertainty, loss, hardship, or crisis, people tend to turn towards anchors that help steady their emotional imbalance. Many people throughout history and across different cultures have turned to spirituality for comfort. This may involve aspects of religious