When a loved one is recovering from emotional and psychological trauma, it takes time to get their mental wellness back on track. The victim needs time to heal and to mourn the losses they’ve experienced, and so it can be difficult to stop yourself forcing the healing process along. If you’re trying to help someone […]

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The introduction of fine arts into a child’s life can host a number of benefits from creativity to discipline. By sharing the love of drawing or painting pictures with your child, they’ll be allowed to develop their own unique methods of artistic pleasure from what they perceive in their mind. The fine arts can also […]

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No period of your life has quite such an effect on your mental health as your teens and early twenties. Your wellbeing has to go through so much; dealing with your changing body and emerging love life, coping with peer pressure, facing the pressures of independence and responsibility, and joining the workforce. According to Patrick […]

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When you are struggling with a difficult time in your relationship, your mental and emotional wellness and wellbeing can be seriously affected. It can be hard to ‘see the wood for the trees’, as they say, meaning that from within the situation, it is often hard to accurately see what is going on, and fix […]

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The stigma around mental and emotional health still runs very deep in India. Due to a very serious lack of support and health care, mental wellness and wellbeing can very quickly deteriorate, leading to soaring suicide risks amongst those who are mentally ill. Many Indian villagers still believe that bad spirits are to blame for […]

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Minority children have lower rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but why? Is the disorder simply rare for this group of people, or do disparities that exist in healthcare mean that minority children’s wellbeing is at risk to under-diagnosis? According to a new study, published in Paediatrics, minority children are less likely to be […]

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Pregnancy and motherhood can take its toll on your mental wellness, but your wellbeing may be more at risk depending on where you live. This is according to children’s charity the NSPCC, which has found “worrying gaps” in mental health services for pregnant women, noting that support is patchy depending on where you live across […]

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You may be concerned that the time your teenager spends on the computer may damage their academic or social wellness, but what you should really be worried about your teen’s mental and emotional health. This is according to a new study, presented last month at the Paediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting in Washington, DC, which […]

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With exam season upon us once again, your teenager’s mental health is more vulnerable than at any other time of year. The stress and pressure of revision, and taking the test itself, can take its toll on your teen’s wellness, so what can you do to help your child combat the unwanted stress that exam […]

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Dementia strikes the elderly more than any other age group. In the eighteenth century, medical and legal experts recognized the word “dementia” as a description of a mental disorder affecting memory and cognitive function. In the past, families of people with dementia usually had to place them in sanatoriums or asylums. Modern technology has made […]

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