mental health
How to look after your mental health naturally
Here we round some tips on how we can all take steps each day to boost our mood and look after ourselves mentally.
12 October 2017, 11:16 AM
Breaking mental health barriers in the workplace
Today marks 25 years of celebrating World Mental Health Day. The anniversary is expected to shed some extra light on the day's celebrations, which made it all the more important to choose a theme, as with every year, that would highlight an indispensable concern related to mental health.
9 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Woman requests time off for mental health, boss’s reply goes viral
A couple of weeks back she shared an exchange she'd had with her CEO after she emailed her team to tell them she was taking time off for mental health reasons, Mashable reports. Parker's tweet has since gone viral for all the right reasons.
11 July 2017, 15:10 PM
Depression: Let’s talk
Depression is a common illness worldwide, with more than 300 million people affected. Depression is different from usual mood fluctuations and short-lived emotional responses to challenges in everyday life. Especially when long-lasting and with moderate or severe intensity, depression may become a serious health condition.
6 April 2017, 18:05 PM
People with anxiety may be hard-wired to see world differently
People with anxiety may not be able to distinguish between neutral and threatening stimuli as well as individuals without this mental health condition, a small study suggests.
9 March 2016, 06:21 AM
Here's how to tell a psychopath from a sociopath
While neither term appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the medical handbook used by psychiatrists, psychopaths can be divided into two categories.
18 January 2016, 06:07 AM
Social media 'pressure' on mental health of teenagers
Teenagers' mental health can be put at risk by constant pressure to post on social media, a study has found.
12 September 2015, 04:01 AM
School psychologists and mental health of children and youth
The concept of school psychologists is not well known in Bangladesh. Although in recent years we have been able to bring the issue of mental health to the fore, making provisions for having psychologists in school is still unchartered territory for us.
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM