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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicMental health

Topic: mental health

In 2020, I battled the pandemic and myself. Now I am forced to do it all over again

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

This toll-free helpline is helping people in Maharashtra cope with Covid fatigue, anger, panic

Samvad, supported by Maharashtra govt & run by NGO Project Mumbai, has been helping people deal with mental health issues triggered by the pandemic since last year.

Companies will thrive only if they recognise mental health is not an individual issue

One legacy of Covid-19 could be a revolution in how we measure mental health & the recognition that our own mental health depends on groups we are part of.

Covid pandemic taught me the importance of resilience and facing fears

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Delhi HC says all insurance companies liable to give effect to Mental Healthcare Act from 2018

Insurance regulator IRDAI is duty bound to supervise the insurance companies and ensure that they comply with the Act and cannot turn a blind eye' to non-implementation of the same.

Principal scientific advisor launches MANAS mobile app to promote mental health, wellbeing

MANAS, which stands for Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System, is a comprehensive, scalable, and national digital wellbeing platform, K VijayRaghavan's office said.

Street trees can reduce people’s need for antidepressants, says study

An experiment in Germany suggests that simply living within 100 metres of a tree can be enough to reduce the need for antidepressant drugs.

1 in 3 Covid patients who recovered have neurological, mental health disorders: Study in Lancet

Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, the study was led by Oxford University researchers and involved over 2 lakh Covid patients who recovered from the disease.

Drastic changes in diet, increase in anxiety, loneliness — how Covid altered lifestyles

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically altered everyone’s lives. After the nationwide lockdown was imposed in March in India, people were confined to their...

‘Should I send my kids to school, should I travel?’ Top Covid concerns on NIMHANS helpline

NIMHANS director G. Gururaj says helpline set up on 25 March has received over 3 lakh calls, though numbers have reduced significantly in recent months.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.