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If you re a new mother, chances of you going through postpartum depression are one in four and statistics report that more than 50% of Indian mothers experience it. When your life gets a whole new meaning with parenthood, feelings of sadness, anxiety, and low energy can be somewhat perplexing. That's when you know you are experiencing postpartum depression, and you're not the only one.

What is postpartum depression?

Often termed as Baby Blues, which is a milder version of dep...more

With increased stress and work-loads coupled with sky-high ambitions, it s natural to wear out your body more often than your schedule permits. Such busy schedules also leave little to no time to relax and detoxify yourself with everything that goes around in your head and body. Thankfully, Ayurveda has a quick healing therapy for all your stressed needs. Let us introduce you to the incredibly relaxing therapy of Abhyanga practised since centuries by some of the very expert masseuse all across t...more

Sensory Processing Disorder refers to a condition in which the brain has problems in receiving and responding to information, which comes through the sense organs. The problems of sensory processing are usually found among children but they can even affect the adults. People receive all kinds of input through how we see, taste, smell, touch and through all our body-centred senses of touch, movement, gravity as well as the position of the body. Occupational therapy is an appropriate treatment tha...more

In India, particularly, there is a dire need for mental awareness about mental health issues since mental health issues are still considered to be a taboo among a large fraction of the population. Mental health issues among students and adolescents, in particular, need to be addressed carefully. Since there is less to no engagement available to detect and help young students struggling with mental health issues, it poses a bigger problem.

Adolescents, at the cusp of adulthood, go throug...more

In many cases, the body responds to a stressful or traumatic situation by disassociating with it. This can result in the development of a dissociative disorder. A dissociative disorder or dissociative amnesia is a mental illness that involves the breaking down of memory, consciousness, identity and perception. It can interfere with a person's general functioning, social life and relationships. People suffering from dissociative amnesia can have long gaps in their memory of the accident and the t...more

Happiness is the opposite of inappropriate, miserable, incomplete and absolutely helpless.
If you are not happy, examine yourself, where are you inappropriate, miserable, incomplete and absolutely helpless.
If not any of these, then you are already happy and you don't know it.
More importantly, you don't want to be happy at all. You just want something else.

Depression is defined as a mental state which is typified by pessimistic sense of insufficiency and a hopeless lack of activity. This state could be so severe that it may require clinical intervention. 'Relapse' is the term coined for the reappearance of signs of depression within six months after the patient has been cured of depression. The time period of depression relapse may be smaller than depression recurrence, but it is equally frightening in both the cases. It becomes very difficult for...more

Jumping at the sight of a cockroach is normal but some people won't even step into the room if they see one. Such people are said to suffer from a phobia of cockroaches. A phobia can be defined as the irrational fear of an object or situation though it may not pose any real danger. A phobia often develops during childhood and gets aggravated as the person gets older.

Hypnotherapy has proven to be an effective form of treatment for phobias and fear. Hypnosis identifies the root cause or...more

From terrorism to natural disasters, there are a number of traumatic events constantly hurling themselves at us. Given the amount of stress it causes an adult, imagine how a child can process this information. Often traumatic events that occur in childhood can trigger phobias and anxiety disorders that last a lifetime if not dealt with correctly.

Each child responds to trauma in a different way depending on the circumstances and their age and personality. What is common is that all chil...more

Visual impairment is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes disabilities or problems, not fixable by usual means, such as glasses. Loss of vision may be acquired and develop suddenly. It may affect one or both your eyes.

What Causes Loss of Vision/Disability?

Loss of vision and disability can result from the following

Clouding of normally transparent eye structures

Abnormalities in the retina

Abnormalities in the nerves carrying visual s...more