Seasonal Affective Disorder: SAD
Seasonal affective disorder: SAD The change in weather and the amount of sunshine each day does effect peoples mood. A way person’s mood is impacted is determined by energy levels...
What is Schizophrenia?
What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a severe long-term mental health condition. Doctors refer to schizophrenia as a type of psychosis. This means that the person may not always be...
Managing your mental health while in self-isolation or quarantine.
There are a number of ways to support your mental health during periods of self-isolation or quarantine. Remind yourself that this is a temporary period of isolation to slow the...
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory...
Panic and Pandemics
In light of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, this blog post will focus on the fear of contagion to contagion of fear. To begin, let’s distinguish between a pandemic...
Social Anxiety Disorder
How SAD Happens: The Development of Social Anxiety Disorder Many people say Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) feels just how it sounds: sad. The disorder can be described as an...
Stigma- Mental health
There is quite a fair amount of misunderstanding about various mental health disorders. A common misunderstanding of the diagnosis ‘schizophrenia’ is thought of having multiple personalities, however, this is an...
Ikiagi- “A Reason For Being”
Ikigai – (ee-key-guy) A new decade is upon us. Probably most of are trying to focus and keep our new year resolutions which involves a positive consequence on life. Perhaps...
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILD THERAPY
Childhood is an important landmark in every person’s life. Anything that happens in that stage has a direct impact on how they behave later in adulthood. The quality of the...
How to make a speech under pressure!
We all have moments in our life where we need to perform under pressure. Sometimes it can be as small as speaking in a parents teacher conference, or getting your...