Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental fatigue caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Burnout occurs when you are pressured, emotionally exhausted, and unable to satisfy ongoing demands. …

People go experience terrible occurrences in their lives at various times throughout their lives. These traumatic events have the potential to have a significant impact on people’s physical and mental health. Depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental illnesses are common among them. Trauma and abuse by parents or caregivers are…

Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is also called Complex-PTSD or C-PTSD. It is a mental health condition which has some of the symptoms of PTSD in addition to dysregulation of emotions, anger issues and trust issues toward others. …

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of Depression, also known as, “Winter Depression”. It has been identified as a type of depression in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). In simple words, SAD is basically “Major Depressive Disorder with Seasonal Pattern”. Symptoms of SAD are similar to…

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) — Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is essentially regarded as a motor–neuro-degenerative disorder involving symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, bradykinesia (i.e. slowness of movement), balance, posture problems, micrographia (small handwriting). Festinating gait and hypophonic speech. However, recent evidence suggests that there is more than motor symptoms when it comes…

Speech disorders can be divided into different categories. If we talk about Motor Speech Disorders, there can be two main types of Motor Speech Disorders named as: 1. Apraxia (of Speech) & 2. Dysarthria Apraxia of speech (AOS) Apraxia of speech is characterized by brain’s inability to program movements of…

Today is YOUR day. Today is MY day. Today is OUR day. It is everyone’s day today. Yes, today is World Mental Health Day. This day and this month is being dedicated to all of us. Today’s article will be different from the rest of my articles. This article is…

Speech is the vital form of communication. It is a lateralized function. The left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the speech production. Now why just the left part of the brain? Because speech is a sequential procedure and a voluntary action. The left hemisphere is mostly responsible for…

Presently, no complete treatment has been known for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, there are several management and intervention programs by which autism can be treated symptomatically in young children. Every child with ASD has got unique sets of abilities and strengths regarding their behavior, social communication and cognitive functioning…