Between November 2013 and May last year, migrant worker welfare group Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) conducted a survey on 670 maids and found out that about a quarter of those surveyed could be classified as having poor mental health.
Date Posted: March 11, 2015
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Two intense emotions that are linked to massive increase in heart attack risk.
Mar 9
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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The core symptoms of ADHD frequently cause significant impairment in academic, social and behavioral functioning that adversely impact individuals’ quality of life.
Mar 9
Categories: Adult ADHD
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We worry about all sorts of things: money, work, family… We are stress over all sorts of events.
Mar 7
Categories: Midlife Crisis / Midlife Transition
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We are constantly bombarded with images of thin people on billboards, on magazines and what not. The study looks at the ideals that children have. And how young girls are showing a preference for thin girls by allocating more "positive" adjectives ...
Mar 7
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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“Even though we all make a lot of attentional errors and we have difficulty focusing, there’s -some potential for those abilities to improve.”
- Dr Nicholas Turk-Browne
Mar 7
Categories: Mindfulness
GOTeachers unconsciously put girls off math and science by marking down their work in comparison to boys, a new study finds.
Mar 6
Categories: Child Development, Teenage Issues
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In the pursuit of being the popular kid along with your team-mates, would you sabotage your rivals, would you cheat?
Mar 6
Categories: Social Isolation
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"They [the children] bothered me, so I decided to kill them."
"I like to attend funerals. I'm happy when someone is dying."
"That is my ambition, to have killed more people – more helpless people – than any man or woman who has ever ...
Mar 6
Categories: Aggression & Violence
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Schizophrenia is a distressing psychological disorder, which predominantly affects young people and can run in families. However, there has been limited progress in uncovering the genetic risk factors associated with schizophrenia despite numerous ...
Mar 5
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Bad marriages can be sickening. Most people don't have to be convinced of this, but for those who do, several decades of studies offer plenty of proof. Even so, very little is known about exactly how marriage quality affects health. Do strife and ...
Mar 5
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Relationships & Marriage
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Young women with ADHD who have been exposed to abuse, neglect or other traumas in childhood and adolescence are at greater risk for self-injury, eating disorders and suicide than those with ADHD who were not mistreated in early youth, according to ...
Mar 4
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child Development, ...
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As public debate rages about issues like immunization, Obamacare, and same-sex marriage, many people try to use science to bolster their arguments. And since it's becoming easier to test and establish facts - whether in physics, psychology, or ...
Mar 4
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People with diabetes are more prone to anxiety and depression than those with other chronic diseases that require similar levels of management. The reasons for this aren't well understood, but Joslin Diabetes Center researchers have discovered one ...
Mar 3
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The notion that the state of our gut governs our state of mind dates back more than 100 years. Many 19th- and early 20th-century scientists believed that accumulating wastes in the colon triggered a state of "auto-intoxication," whereby poisons ...
Mar 3
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Facebook, the world's largest social network, has become a place for many of its 1.3 billion active users to share deeply personal thoughts. When users see posts from people who are directly threatening suicide, they should contact local emergency ...
Mar 3
Categories: Suicide Prevention
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