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Social

“Risk hai to ishq hai”- Decoding the financial risks and how to stay safe!

A couple of months back we had a 20-year-old boy come to us in our outpatient department who was feeling very distressed, had difficulty sleeping and remained very anxious for the last week. When we interviewed him, we got to

Self Help

Forgiveness – The Golden Virtue 

Great beings in the past have said that forgiveness is not for someone else but rather for yourself. Harboring anger and hurt is like holding a piece of charcoal in your own hand and expecting the other person to burn.

Awareness

Violence against women Mental health consequences and Rehabilitation strategies

Violence against women is highly prevalent, yet we all try to steer clear from the discourse about the same. Most of us also perceive it to be a personal issue and remain ignorant about the global nature of this social

Positive Self Help

Gratitude: A Key to Happiness

Gratitude has been understood from multiple perspectives. According to the state view, gratitude can be defined as the state of thankfulness for all. That is important to an individual. From the trait perspective, it can be understood as the disposition

Awareness

Frozen No More: Conquer Mood Freezing, Find Peace

The phrase “mood freezing” refers to an experiment conducted in 1984 using “mood-freezing pills.” To fix the respondents’ current moods, the researchers in the study purposely irritated the participants and gave them placebos, or tablets that freeze emotions. The respondents’

Therapy

Polyvagal Theory: A Breakdown of the Autonomic Nervous System and Social Behavior

The Polyvagal Theory, created by Dr. Stephen Porges, distinguishes 3 stages of evolution within the development of the mammalian autonomic nervous system. The theory gives a framework for understanding how our autonomic nervous system, impacts our psychological and behavioral experiences,

Education

Psychology of Tragedy: Understanding, Coping and Moving forward

Tragedy is defined as an event or sequence of events that can occur singly or collectively, resulting in pain and suffering that impacts us on many levels (emotional, social, physical, coping, creative and spiritual). People frequently suffer from severe emotional

Awareness

Role of Play in Child Development and Emotional Expression

A toy carousel hung above a 4 month old baby and the baby looking at its movement as it moved around, sand buckets, shovels, in the sand pit area, amma’s small cooker, her ladle, her rolling pin all in the

Health

Aider in Mental Health + (ve) Community

Emerging trends nowadays about ‘mental health’ and ‘mental health awareness’ has led to more and more people to talk about it on an open platform. Crowding on various social media platforms about a large chunk of information regarding mental health,

Self Help

Anxiety: It’s not all in the mind

“You know what, I have figured it out. I can control my occasional anxiety attacks.” A patient in his 30s casually rationalises his state a few days after going through a panic attack. Everyone feels anxious from time to time.