January is the month of mental wellness, which gives us a chance to shed light on its importance. Various factors affect our mental wellbeing. Wellbeing is not merely the absence of illness. Rather, it involves a multitude of factors, including one’s social, mental, physical, and emotional health. Well-being relates to happiness, life satisfaction, and a…
Modern medicine has made many impressive advancements in the treatment of physical health conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Similar progress has been made in the mental health field, where there are now various effective treatment options for different mental health conditions. However, social acceptance and openness to the latter are quite disappointing….
*Trigger warning: Suicide. “To make the pain end” – *Salma, 23. “I was trapped in my pain. I was lonely. I was unendurably alone in my pain. There was no hope that it would never end as I still breathe. And it had to end. The pain had to end.” – Malak, a 23 year…
Have you ever noticed that the most famous psychologists come from a Western background? Freud, who introduced the ego theory (id, ego and supergeo), Pavlov, who discovered classical conditioning or Carl Jung, the psychoanalyst who introduced the concept of the collective unconscious all share a Western culture. In the recent couple of decades, psychologists have…
