Awareness

20,000 Calls in Two Months- Mental Health Helpline Meets Success

Mental health hotlines are the onset for obtaining help for mental illness. These hotline operators have an approach to a wealth of information to support the people suffering from mental illness...

Mediated Reality Impact of the Virtual World

In his book The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxely opened himself to the wonderful and reorienting experience of taking mescaline. His description of the ‘trip’ and the resulting investigatio...

Admissions open for MPhil clinical psychology and MPhil psychiatric social work in GMCH

Department of Psychiatry was started in February 1994 at polyclinic, sector 22. The OPD services Were shifted to government Medical College and hospital, sector 32, in June 1995.The department ha...

Mental Health Advancement in The Twentieth Century

Mental health as a state of well-being. encompasses the realization of our abilities to deal with the stressors of life, to work productively and to contribute effectively to our community and th...

Anxiety Disorders and Other Mental Issues Resulting from Academic Pressure.

Academic pressure on adolescents has reached acute levels. The stress of admission into a desired college, getting good grades, and landing the best internships and placements, has taken a big to...

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. Kartik calling Kartik is a beautiful nar...

The dark world of social media

Social Media Crime has become the new dimension of cybercrime. The popularity of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat have transformed the way we und...

Let's Talk about SEX! Mental health benefits of sex

In a number of ways, sex affects our brain chemistry, and one of them is increasing our brain capacity. There is some evidence that sex actually improves our cognitive ability: a study published ...

Accepting Death in Old age the inevitable truth

Why do people fear death when it is the most certain thing in our lives? Death is not only the end of a physical life but also the psychological, emotional separation from their loved ones. The t...

Our need for touch

humans, just like other mammals that live in packs or groups need the sense of touch to communicate a variety of messages. The sense of touch was our very first means of communication since birth...