Starring Erin Karpluk as Erica Strange and Michael Riley as Dr. Tom, ‘Being Erica’ is surely set to sweep you off your feet while making you feel like you’re sipping a cup of hot cocoa, snuggled in a warm blanket. It does magical things to you; transcends you into the world of Erica, and emotionally […]
Selfitis, a new term has been given to people who take too many ‘selfie’ photos. Although it may seem funny, there are some serious concerns about this obsessive trend. If you suspect that people who incessantly post “selfie” photos on social media are vain and self-absorbed, you could be right. And you might have some […]
Mental health, in Pakistan, is often overlooked and relegated to being an inconvenience. Alienating people struggling with their mental health perpetuates unhealthy stereotypes of mental illness. The stigma around seeking help, therapy, or medical help, leads to people not having adequate support systems. Inevitably, this feeds into a vicious cycle where the individual is left […]
By worldly definition, “Mindset” is defined as, “the way of thinking, the established set of attitudes held by someone”. Further defining it in detail means that “how a person or a group of people perceive an idea how they react to it, the way of absorbing and processing information“. Mindset establishes how people or groups […]
Children of narcissistic parents often inherit a uniquely destructive legacy. If you had a narcissistic parent, that legacy may still affect you in ways that can be hard to spot. A key step in letting go of an unhealthy upbringing lies in breaking connections between how you were raised and your present-day unwanted behaviors. The […]
What is addiction? According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine: Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social, and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors. […]
While countries are dealing with mass breakouts of Coronavirus, there are many people with health anxiety going into crisis with their mental health. It is difficult to get away from the conversations on the news that talk about how many more new cases there are daily, or social media posts that share videos of people […]
As the second wave of COVID-19 sends countries around the world back into lockdown, scientists worry what impact more isolation will have. More than half the world’s population was under some form of lockdown last April, and most have been subject to stay-at-home orders off and on since then. In the United States, more than […]
Selena Gomez recently opened up about going through depression during the Covid-19 lockdown. Over the weekend, Selena Gomez did an Instagram Live with Dr. Vivek Murthy. If quarantine had you or someone you know feeling down, know that Selena was going through the same issues. They discussed the chronic loneliness as part of her Rare […]
The well renowned Pakistani model, Mushk Kaleem, posted her journey of suffering from body dysmorphia in an Instagram post. People seem so normal when one looks at the, without knowing all the chaos that’s been going in their minds. We envy people, downgrade ourselves. We think that the other one has it better and all […]
