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Life Style Positive

When Grief Begins with Relief: Understanding Caregivers’ Emotions After Loss

According to the society’s imaginary, what is normal in front of a loss is one way of grieving, which includes crying, screaming and a showcase of sadness. What happens when a loss is not shown in that way? Facing a long

Awareness

Service Before Self: The Hidden Crisis for Caregivers Without Rest

Many professionals, such as long-term volunteers, social workers, healthcare workers, and caregivers, give and give without stopping, with no time to take a break. For these “service before self” professionals, emotional and mental well-being are especially at risk, whether they’re

Parenting

Gifted Children and Emotional Sensitivity: A Guide for Caregivers

Giftedness consists of intellectual depth coupled with emotional depth. Gifted children experience emotions with a greater intensity in comparison to their peers. Intense emotion is much more than “feeling more”; it is to live life in an intensely vivid, absorbing,

Positive Self Help

The Unheard Plight of Caregivers

A caregiver is an individual that is responsible for providing physical, mental, emotional & financial support to family members who are chronically Ill or disabled. Caregiving is a role that no one is prepared for because no one can predict

Awareness

Essential tips for caregivers and families of dementia patients

Dementia is a term used to refer to several different symptoms, memory loss and lack of judgment being the major ones, which largely affect the life of an individual by interfering with their daily lives and the tendency to do

Awareness

Why Teenagers Misbehave With Their Caregivers?

The teenage stage is a complex and transitional stage that lies as a path between childhood and adulthood. It is a pivotal stage of development as it marks as well as shapes an individual’s personality. Adolescence is quite transformative as

Health

Factitious Disorder Imposed on Self: Why Do People Pretend to Be Ill? 

Imagine purposefully trying to act sick in front of others even when you do not have a clear financial, legal, or other gain from doing so. This strange behaviour is a phenomenon of Factitious Disorder Imposed on Self (FDIS), where

Education

Karen Horney’s Challenge to Freudian Psychology

In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud‘s psychoanalysis ruled psychological thought on the human mind. Most of the field believed its central tenets: behaviour is largely a function of unconscious instincts, personality is largely formed in early childhood, and women’s psychology

Awareness

Is Emotional Distress Being Overdiagnosed in Youth?

There is a significant shift in how mental health is perceived by the younger generation. The increase in awareness and encouragement regarding emotional difficulties and recognising when to ask for help is quite evident. But somehow there is also a

News

Shocking UNICEF Data Reveals 20 Million Children Face Online Sexual Abuse Globally

In a shocking reveal, UNICEF has reported that one in five children between the ages of 12 and 17 years of age face online sexual abuse or tech abuse. The report gathered data that counted over 20 million children across