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International Conference Held at Gautam Buddha University (GBU) on Post-COVID Mental Health

In 2017, India was given the unpleasant title of the world’s ‘most depressing country’ by WHO, with one out of seven suffering from a mental illness. Indian culture has stigmatized mental illnesses through a tout. Instead of getting support to

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Mindfulness and Resilience

The words “mindfulness” and “(tranquillity) meditation” are often used interchangeably. In essence, tranquillity meditation means “focusing continuously on the body,” i.e., not pursuing our usual thoughts and not relating to the external world. It primarily emphasizes sustained attention to the

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Optimizing Wellness: The Role of Health Psychology in India

Health has traditionally been discussed with reference to the physical body. Moreover, it is often understood in terms of the absence of any objective or subjective signs of illness. However, such notions do little justice to the multi-dimensionality of health.The

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Note to a Caregiver of a chronic disease

“My Journey as a caregiver to an IPF warrior”Death is unfathomable, especially when it strikes home. Time seems to stand still when your loved one is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness/chronic disease. You either push away the news being hopeful

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Accepting Death in Old age the inevitable truth

Do we plan our death as we plan our future? How many of us raise the topic of death at the dinner table? The harsh reality is we fear death and thus dread to talk about it. Death and dying

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Socio-Psychological Impact of Covid-19

Coronavirus, which is said to originate in the city of Wuhan, China, around December 2019, has taken its toll all over the world. Everyone thought the outbreak will subside, but it seems to have no end and is here to

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Our need for touch

Ever felt good when patted on the back or after a hug by your close friends at the end of a long and tiring day? Did you ever ruffle someone’s hair as a way of saying hello or feel the

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Media Destigmatizing Mental Illness

Web Series Breathe: Into the Shadows, brings light on showcasing Dissociative Identity Disorder Breathe: Into the shadows, a recent Indian web series has stirred up a lot of review and discussion. No doubt, the quality of Indian web shows and

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Children of parents with psychosis

It takes 5 minutes to clean up the spilled milk. But it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit. Rebecca Eanes wrote this in her book and opened the door towards the poetical nature of parenting. “Parenting”, a

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Students’ well-being Knockdown in Lockdown

Have you ever experienced a feeling when a villain role in a movie is stronger than expected and you wait till climax just to see him or her losing but it leaves you devastated when they win over? Now this