Signs of mental health issues that you shouldn't ignore
Trendingdesk • 3 years agoMental health issues can be caused by several different factors like genetic susceptibility, environment, and daily habits
Rat race: What mental health lessons can be learnt from rodents
• 3 years agoAfter first catching the world's attention for their ability to operate tiny cars in 2018, the University of Richmond's 'rat drivers' are hitting headlines again. The animals are now part of a project that could help resolve human mental health challenges
From reading books to playing games, how to remain youthful despite stress
• 3 years agoStudies have shown that people who aren’t good at managing their stress can increase their risk of dying prematurely by 43 percent
Deepika Padukone launches initiative to provide mental health assistance to COVID-19 frontline workers
• 4 years agoSale proceeds from the actor's online shop, The Deepika Padukone Closet, will go to NGO Sangath’s Covid-19 well-being centre.
Anxiety, depression, isolation: 50 Indians on biggest mental health challenges they've faced amid COVID-19 crisis
Aarushi Agrawal • 4 years agoFirstpost heard from 50 individuals about what their mental health struggles had been like in the year of a pandemic, self-isolation and lockdowns.
In her debut novel, Meera Rajagopalan explores a woman's fading memory through her satirical journal entries
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 4 years agoFor Rajagopalan, the diary entries become a clever medium to bring home the intrigue of reading the accounts of an unreliable narrator, who might or might not have lived through the experiences that she records or understood those subjects that she claims to know all about.
For people with psychosocial disabilities and mental illness, medical gaslighting often mars access to healthcare
Srinidhi Raghavan • 4 years agoOften the long-term harm caused by medical gaslighting leads to trauma that needs medical attention.
Men, students made up majority of callers to India's first mental health helpline: Report
Tech2 News Staff • 4 years agoAround 75 percent of callers were people between ages 15 and 40, and around 18 percent were from people between ages 41 and 60.
Fifty percent of elderly suffer from chronic diseases, 40 percent are disabled: LASI Wave 1 report
• 4 years agoThe LASI Wave 1 field survey, conducted across 35 states and UT from April 2017 to December 2018, was released by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
Within 90 days of testing positive for COVID-19, a person has high risk of developing a mental illness: Oxford
Tech2 News Staff • 4 years agoResearchers also found that there was a higher risk of dementia in those who recover from the virus.