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Awareness News

Diabetes Can Cause Depression, Anxiety, and Sleep Disturbance

Diabetes, a chronic metabolic condition can often lead to anxiety and depression symptoms in a number of individuals. The quality of sleep and stress levels also bear significant impact as a result of the condition. Several lifestyle-related risk factors including

Awareness Health News

How to Cope with “Corona Phobia” Between the Rising Cases of Covid-19

Most people have temporary fear of coronavirus. While there are some who are overly afraid of its serious consequences. They prefer to avoid medical care, isolate themselves from others or weaken with fear. While others take over social media and

Education

Counselling in Schools: Who? What? Why?

A student from Grade 2 is observed to be sitting alone during lunchtime by a compassionate teacher, the fifth day in a row. When she addresses this young boy, he starts crying and shares that all his classmates tease him.

Awareness Education

Burnout at Workplace

The significance of the condition of ‘Burn out’ is so rampant in today’s time that it has even seeped into being portrayed on the screens of Cinema. Typically, being shown in the form of an employee being constantly irritated and

Education

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

Technology

The Toll of Online Connectivity

Have you been feeling irritated about being unable to keep your hands off the smartphone and computer? Or from being seen online and having to interact on social media platforms? The irritation may be owing to the fact that the

Education

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

Social

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

Parenting

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

Therapy

Two approaches to treat Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness that centres on the inability to manage emotions effectively. The disorder occurs in the context of relationships: sometimes all relationships are affected, sometimes only one. It usually begins during early adulthood.