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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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Dating Someone with OCD: How to Navigate Rituals, Reassurance, and Anxiety Together

OCD, often known as obsessive compulsive disorder, is a chronic disorder, which means it is a long-term condition that is characterised by recurrent compulsions and intrusive,  unwanted thoughts (obsessions) to help relieve the anxiety that these thoughts create  (International OCD

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Breaking Language Barriers in Mental Health: Why Psychology Needs More Regional Diversity in India

A 45-year-old female, Nisha, from rural Maharashtra, speaks Marathi as her mother tongue. After experiencing a traumatic event, which got her into PTSD, depression and anxiety. She began to get help, but it was hard to come by because there

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Effective Bullying Interventions in Schools 

As a teacher, have you noticed students consistently excluding one particular student, whether in group activities, lunch, or playtime? Have you heard hurtful name-calling or mocking laughter echoed in a school hallway? Have you noticed a student who sits alone

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How Television Shapes Stereotypes: The Impact of Media Representation on Society and Psychology 

Remember the last time you saw India on Western TV. What did you see? A yellow filter that seems more like a desert scene, mustard fields and snake charmers restricting our diversity. How many times have you seen diverse characters

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Animal Rehabilitation Psychology: Training Techniques for Stress-Free Pets

We have often heard terms like a rehabilitation centre, along with terms like the animal whisperer, the dog or even lion whisperer and so on. While looking at it from the outside, it can feel like some sort of magic

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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

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The Hidden Cost of Academic Competition: How Scores and Rankings Affect Student Mental Health 

Consider a student, slouched over stacks of textbooks late at night, their bloodshot eyes, their mind spinning. The pressure of a looming examination, a coveted ranking, presses down, overwhelming all else in their life. It is no singular occurrence; it

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The Psychology of Feeling Behind in Your 20s: Social Comparison, Identity Crisis & Mental Health

Your 20s are the years to do it all, to feel it all and well, just figure your whole life out in just less than 10 years. Although it sounds dauntingly exciting at first, it’s a lot for our minds

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God, Gender, and Power: How Women Reclaim Spiritual Authority and Challenge Religious Patriarchy

Legislating conduct through religious beliefs or spiritual authority is not new. Throughout history, religious beliefs and/or spiritual authority have served to either uphold social norms or endorse patriarchal ideals that have silenced all but a few of the voices of