SINGAPORE - About one in 15 Singaporeans suffers from stress-related disorders such as depression at some point in his or her life. Mental health experts said one contributing factor could be Singapore's highly dense urban environment.
Date Posted: March 26, 2014
Categories: Stress Management
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Some of Australia's leading scientists, researchers and doctors have started world-first clinical research in Brisbane to unlock the code behind post-traumatic stress disorder - the debilitating and potentially fatal mental illness that impacts ...
Mar 25
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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A nasal spray that delivers a peptide to treat depression holds promise as a potential alternative therapeutic approach, research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows.
Mar 25
Categories: Depression
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To be in flow is to be so engrossed in what you're doing-and this can be in any activity although we often tend to associate this state with creative pursuits and elite sport that literally nothing, not the passing of time, your full bladder or the ...
Mar 25
Categories: Happiness
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Having a good quality and restorative sleep is essential for one to be able to function well throughout the day. Failure to do so will lead to numerous impacts to health, both long- and short-term.
Mar 24
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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HONG KONG - Ingrained resistance to discussing mental health problems and suicide in Hong Kong is proving to be an obstacle to bringing down the rising rate of young people killing themselves, suicide prevention workers say.
The city's youth ...
Mar 24
Categories: Suicide Prevention, Teenage Issues
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Building a strong connection to a social group helps clinically depressed patients recover and helps prevent relapse, according to a new study.
For the paper, (CIFAR) Senior Fellow Alexander Haslam, lead author Tegan Cruwys and their colleagues at ...
Mar 23
Categories: Depression, Social Anxiety / Phobia, Social Isolation
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Jilly Dos Santos really did try to get to school on time. She set three successive alarms on her phone. Skipped breakfast. Hastily applied makeup while her fuming father drove. But last year she rarely made it into the frantic scrum at the doors of ...
Mar 22
Categories: Sleep Disorders, Teenage Issues
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In mindfulness, you train your mind to focus on the present and respond with reason before emotion. It's about taking a pause and guiding yourself to become "aware enough in the moment so that before you react, you're aware of how you're responding ...
Mar 22
Categories: Mindfulness
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"Millions of people suffering from psychological distress fail to seek or receive mental health services. A key factor here is that many evidence-based treatments are burdensome - time consuming, expensive, difficult to access, and perceived as ...
Mar 21
Categories: Anxiety
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Investigators’ focus on the role of pilots on the missing Malaysian jetliner casts a spotlight on how commercial aviators are screened for mental health.
Malaysian Airline System Bhd. gives psychological tests, a common industry practice in Asia, ...
Mar 21
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You know when you want a friend or partner to tell you, honestly, how you look in a new outfit? A new study offers a way. Daft as it may sound, the findings suggest that if you truly want an honest verdict, it could work to ask your friend to put ...
Mar 21
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Stressed males tend to become more self-centered and less able to distinguish their own emotions and intentions from those of other people. For women the exact opposite is true. Stress, this problem that haunts us every day, could be undermining ...
Mar 20
Categories: Empathy, Stress Management
GOWith many people in Singapore suffering from mental illness but not seeking treatment, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) said it has been conducting a two-year study to gain insight into Singaporeans' understanding and attitudes towards mental ...
Mar 20
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Why is being happy, positive and satisfied with life the ultimate goal of so many people, while others steer clear of such feelings? It is often because of the lingering belief that happiness causes bad things to happen, says Mohsen Joshanloo and ...
Mar 20
Categories: Happiness
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From a very young age, infants have a way of making their feelings known – contorted faces and howls indicate their displeasure with a meal or a damp diaper, a gummy smile their contentment, and a furrowed brow their puzzlement over a new ...
Mar 19
Categories: Emotional Intelligence
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