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Awareness

Cannabis….. Really

Cannabis is a common substance of abuse during adolescence among school, college going students and street children in India. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 147 million people or 2.5 percent of world population use Cannabis, making it the

Awareness

Anti-Social Personality: A curse to society

According to Allport, “Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.” Psychologists from all over the world have defined personality in different ways and have researched behaviours which

News

WALK-IN-INTERVIEW FOR SENIOR RESIDENT (PSYCHIATRY)

Deep Chand Bandhu Govt. Hospital has two vacant posts of Senior Resident for the Adolescents and Juvenile de-addiction Ward on Contractual basis. This post will be initially for the tenure of 1 year which will be extended up to 3

Interview

Interview of C.R. Mukundan

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: Diploma in Medicine and Social Psychology, Ph.D. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: Conducted various workshops and conferences internationally; Associated with Forensic Psychological Investigations (Singapore) PUBLICATIONS: About 100 research publications in national and international journals, 4 books, contribution of chapters in several

Motivation

Quitting smoking is easy; I’ve done it hundreds of times

Addiction is a compulsive behaviour, despite knowing the harm it causes. Addiction may be persistent because of the feeling of pleasure and/or value. This behaviour may involve a particular substance or activity. Substance addiction includes intake of any harmful substance

Awareness

Balancing the wheel of our life

Balancing the wheel of life refers to create a balance in our professional life and personal life. The term Work-life balance is used to describe the balance between work obligations and personal responsibilities. It was coined to address the unhealthy

Awareness

Nomophobia

Nomophobia is the marked anxiety or fear of being without a mobile phone or being unable to see a mobile phone, or losing network or internet connectivity. The term Nomophobia includes: “no”, “mo” and “phobia”. It was given by a

Awareness

Screens taking over Young Minds!

With mobiles and tablets permeating our everyday lives, we face many unique challenges of technology induced psychological and psychiatric issues. Though definitely, they are good source of information but none the less too much screen dependence has its own effects.

Health

Understand peer pressure: Inculcate good habits

The peers usually refer to the group of people whom we share similar likes, dislikes and interests. It can be any group like a group of students at school, college, and university or at a coaching institute. We spend quality

Self Help

“Keep Calm & Don’t Explode” or “Walking Time Bomb”

According to DSM V, Intermittent Explosive Disorder or IED is a recurrent behavioral outbursts that represents a failure to control aggressive impulses. In simple terms, a person with IED can’t control his anger and will impulsively explode into rage with