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Early detection and treatment of mental disorders in children is essential. When a mental disorder occurs, it becomes a part of the nature of your child if timely intervention is not done. This makes recovery more complicated. But knowing when your child has a serious problem isn't always easy. Everyday pressures can trigger changes in the actions of your child! Mental health is a significant component of the general health of children, has a dynamic interactive link with their physical health and their ability to excel in education, at work and in society. On the inside and outside, both physical and mental well-being influence how we think, feel and act.  Causes of Mental Illness The exact cause of most mental disorders is not clear although evidence indicates that a variety of factors could be involved, including genes, biology, psychological trauma, and environmental stress. Heredity (genetics): Mental illness appears to be prevalent in families, which suggests that parent...

Do you ever wonder why meditation, pranayam and life force are given so much of an importance?  We often talk about energy and some of us feel and believe that energy is the source of this creation, there are all sorts of energies around us and without energy, nothing sustains. Through this write up, I would like to regiment my focus on energy that is within us and energy which quantum physicists are talking about.  During the earlier days, Yogis had a substantial and healthy life span of up to 150 or even 200 years largely without any pathological illness. We may blame lifestyle, globalization and other factors for this age evaporation to an extent, but there is certainly something more to it.  When the doctors say that with the help of technology they have been able to increase the life span, are they just referring to the quantification factor of it or quality factor too?  We all know the answer I suppose. Our body is made up of 50 trillion live cells. So, we ar...

What is Toxic Productivity? Our work culture places a lot of value on productivity and celebrates the trade-off between mental health with productivity and achievement. Rarely do we find healthy sleeping schedules, reasonable goals or self-care being lauded. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced productivity as a goal in daily lives. People have been feeling the pressure to achieve radical self-improvement above all else during their time in self-quarantine due to various influences.   The belief that if we leave lockdown not having learnt a new language or written a novel then we have somehow failed is a toxic productivity message. This hyper-productive response to the lockdown is perhaps symbolic of an impending mental health crisis within an already anxious and goal-oriented work culture where self-worth is associated with the amount of work one accomplishes.   Pushing oneself towards self-improvement, basing it entirely on productivity and feeling overwhelmed because one is...

Approximately 8 million deaths worldwide are attributable to mental disorders each year. A study conducted by the Word Health Organization in 2015 shows that one in five Indians may suffer from depression in their lifetime, equivalent to 200 million people. With such statistics one would wonder that awareness about the same is widespread and the public is sensitive enough towards people suffering from mental health disorders. Such hopes though are in vain. Often we see people lamenting and calling themselves depressed over a professional or personal loss, or labeling themselves or others with a habit of tidying things and places up as patients sick with obsessive compulsive disorder or call themselves as bipolar because of mood swings they may have or address people with different behaviour than themselves as 'psychopaths' or refer to someone who clicks a lot of selfies as a 'narcissist' . But do we actually understand what these terms mean? Or the implicati...