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We all need to (and can) get back on our feet after facing an Academic Failure

The current scenario of academics in India is rife with cutthroat competition and greatly unpredictable. From increasingly challenging competitive exams ranked among the ‘toughest in the world’, to paper leaks, students are surrounded by difficulty and uncertainty. These can take

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What Are The Warning Signs of Child Parentification?

If you’re a licensed therapist who has completed online counselling courses, you’ll likely come across patients who have experienced parentification in childhood. Recognising the signs of child parentification is the first step towards treating this trauma, and helping patients recover.

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Self-Isolation & Healing from it

Self-isolation can be defined as a state or condition in which the person prefers to stay away from others, for a certain period, willingly. It can be exercised by means of not attending social events, family or friends together or

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Fawning: Trauma, People-Pleasing, and Healing

Trauma overwhelms an individual’s capacity to cope with stressful incidents. FIGHT, FLIGHT, FREEZE and FAWNING are the four known fear responses. Fawning refers to a coping mechanism which is characterized by resorting to people pleasing and submissive behaviors. It aids

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Compassion Fatigue: A Caregiver’s Silent Battle

Whenever we have a mental breakdown or mental illness and physical illness, we always reach out to health care providers, don’t we? Did you know they also face some kind of distress?  Consider, when you try to assist your friend

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Female Empowerment

The empowerment of a single female is about the empowerment of all of us. Empowerment is the idea that we can increase an individual’s autonomy, self-determination and personal independence. It is through personal empowerment that we can enrich the lives

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ADHD and Workplace Challenges

“Could you please calm your nerves, or do you have ADHD?”“Why can’t you just concentrate and do it right for just one time?”“Please get back to your room, and save me from trouble” All of us have had parents/caregivers complaining

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Pervasive Developmental Disorders 

You might not have heard the term “pervasive developmental disorder” (PDD) in a while. That’s because, in 2013, the medical community transitioned to a more inclusive term: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). But what exactly does this spectrum encompass, and how did

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Catatonia: Understanding the Spectrum of Motor Abnormalities

Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric disorder represented by a spectrum of motor abnormalities. This can be right from complete mobility to excessive, the moment of purposelessness. Understanding catatonia identifies its varied presentations, causes and reasons, Effective management Strategiesand treatments. Catatonia specifically

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Capgras Syndrome: The Delusion of Doppelganger

Capgras Syndrome is a rare condition in which a person is perceived as the duplicate of a family member or loved one. This delusion can hamper daily functioning and affect both the patient and the person disillusioned as a doppelganger.