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5 Tips to Maintain Your Mental Health During the Holidays

The holidays are a lovely time of year, a welcome respite from everyday life. But they do face their own challenges. This year in particular, celebrations are marked with COVID-19’s effects on our lives. This increased stress can take a...

What Is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

Seasonal affective disorder ( SAD) is a depression that takes place each year at the same time. It normally occurs at the beginning of the winter season and ends in spring. In the United States, approximately 10 to 20% of...

Insomnia and Control of emotions

Insomnia is a sleeping disorder that causes you to not being able to fall asleep. Insomnia not only affects your level of energy but also has a significant effect on your health and overall quality of life. People suffering from...

Dealing With A Toxic Relationship

Toxic relationships are those types of interactions that make you feel disrespectful, sad, angry, unsupported, and threaten your well-being in one or another way. Toxic relationships can occur between couples but may also subsist in your family and friends. If...

How online therapy can help you through COVID-19?

A couple of months ago, no one had any idea that the majority of the world was soon going to be in lockdown. We would have no chance to meet our loved ones and would be stuck at home, not...

Tips to Help Your Relationship Survive During Quarantine

Thanks to the pandemic going on, now you are stuck with your partner for an unpredictable time. Where quarantine can bring you too close, there are equal chances of you and your significant other being torn apart. So, how would...

How to take care of our emotional needs in the midst of a crisis

It is natural to feel depression, anxiety, stress, and related emotions in a crisis. Everyone reacts to a crisis differently, but it surely affects their mental health. We all are going through such crises these days which is COVID-19. We...

Keeping the Balance During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Fear, stress and uncertainty have spread across the world with the Covid-19 impacting human life. Most of the countries have imposed lockdown measures and encourage social distancing. However, with the virus dominating and most of us compelled to stay at...

Benefits of Fish Oil supplements on mental health

As the name itself suggests fish oil is an oil that is taken from the tissues of oily fish, such as cod and salmon. Scientists prefer large, predatory fish to create fish oil supplements because they usually eat a diet...

How ADHD affects child development

A chronic condition that affects millions of children around the world, Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) includes a combination of persistent problems, such as trouble in sustaining attention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Children with ADHD may struggle with low self-esteem, troubled relationships...