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What is Health Psychology? Its role in treating illness

Overview: Health psychology is a branch of psychology that that emphasizes how behavioral, biological, social and psychological factors impact the health and illness in beings. At times, behavioral medicine and medical psychology are the terms used to refer to health

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Bipolar Disorder: Mania & Hypomania

Bipolar disorder is classified as a mental health condition in which the person is experiencing manic and depressive episodes together. The oldest recognition of bipolar disorder was given in medical literature, at the time of Hippocrates (460-370 BC). Hippocrates was

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Domestic violence puts children’s mental health at risk

When your parents fight, it’s painful enough, but a new study suggests that trauma can increase your chances of depression and other mental health issues. More than 17,700 Canadian people took part in a national survey on mental health for

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The Psychology of “Dealing with Dissonance”

We often find ourselves in crisis when the world operates disproportionately to our values or meaning or the purpose, we look out of life. As we perceive the world around, we find ourselves constantly in a dynamic conflict between ‘attempts

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The Psychology of Expectations

What are expectations? An expectation is an emotional anticipation or belief of an occurrence that may take place in future. It’s a potential form of pseudo reality that we look forward to being manifested in our lives. Expectations can be

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Mental Health in Youths from impoverished communities

Mental Health illnesses are a global phenomenon and the conditions are increasing worldwide. Due to demographic changes, there has been an increase of 13% in mental health conditions and substance abuse in the last decade. With 20% of global children

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UAE transitioned into employee-friendly country

As a result of the Covid-19 epidemic, mental health difficulties have increased among employees as they struggle to adjust to new habits and work practices. Here’s how flexible working hours and work-from-home choices might benefit working professionals’ mental health. As

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On Being Sane in Insane places

A very interesting experiment was done by Dr. David Rosenhan, which still, after all these years,  has its impact on how we perceive psychiatry and mental institutions. Rosenhan, in his 9 pages long paper in Science (1973) started by stating,

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INVOLUNTARY JOB LOSS INFLUENCES MENTAL HEALTH IN MEN

One of the prime factors which decide how one lives their life is by their work. Most humans attach their identity to the work that they do on daily basis. From where they earn their money by monetizing their skill

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Mental Health Issues during Pandemic

The novel coronavirus is a highly infectious disease that started spreading from the month of February 2020 in India and since then has impacted the whole nation adversely. The government had to take strict measures of a nationwide lockdown in

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