Work-life balance can mean that a person should be able to enjoy and feel fulfilled both at work and home. In the traditional sense, it reflects the individual’s ability to meet their work and family commitments with minimum role conflict (Delecta, 2011)...
Therapy is a two-way interaction that can be instrumental in helping us enhance our well-being, function better, learn more about ourselves and our relationships, heal from hidden and evident traumas, identify the behavioral patterns that hold us back, navigate through major life changes, deal with...
Evolving from mammals, our species exists on a similarly diverse spectrum of biological sexes and sexualities. However, being social creatures, we also invented gender identities and their expressions as our civilizations grew. It has been as recent as the year 1977 when the first documented...
Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions that interfere with all aspects of an individual's life. Feeling sad is something that we all experience from time to time. For most of us, this feeling is temporary and will pass. However, for some,...
Two years ago, we couldn’t have imagined how our world and lives look today. Now, emerging from a global pandemic, it is difficult to imagine life as it used to be. Covid-19 lockdowns have had various mental health implications for populations across the globe....
The American Psychological Association (APA) defines anxiety as an ‘emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. A 2020 estimate by WHO informs us that 38 million Indians suffer from anxiety. With an anxiety disorder, a person becomes...
As soon as someone completes their education, conversations around marriage slowly grow and intensify during their twenties. Some young people, especially those who do not identify as cisgender and heterosexual try to navigate this by leaving their parental home for future education or a job...
Conventionally, difficult conversations at work would revolve around performance reviews, the callousness of employees, inappropriate clothing, and slacking off during productive hours. With the onset of the global pandemic and people working from home, there has been a growing awareness of the role of work...
We often associate the word “trauma” with catastrophic events like fatal accidents, terror attacks, battlefield combat, mass shootings, physical violence, sexual violence, etc. Trauma does include all of these, but also much more. Trauma can be understood by us as a dangerous, forceful or shocking...
The decision to see a professional about your mental health is not always an easy step to take and could take anywhere from days to months to reach this very decision. And this is just the first of many steps to follow. The next question...