Mental Health
Suicide Prevention: Warning Signs and How to Support Someone in Crisis
Suicide is preventable. If someone is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number (112 in Nigeria) and stay with them. More than 700,000…
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Anger Management: When Irritability Becomes a Mental Health Concern
Anger is a normal emotion. It becomes a concern when it is frequent, intense, out of proportion to the situation, or leads to shouting,…
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Insomnia and Sleep Disorders: Why You Can’t Sleep and What Helps
Insomnia means having trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or waking too early, at least three nights a week, with tiredness or poor concentration the…
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Schizophrenia and Psychosis: Separating Myths from Medical Facts
Psychosis means losing touch with reality, usually through hallucinations or false beliefs. Schizophrenia is one of several conditions that can cause it, and it…
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Bipolar Disorder Explained: Mood Swings That Are More Than “Just Mood”
Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood condition with episodes of unusually high energy (mania or hypomania) and episodes of depression. These shifts are very…
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Understanding Trauma and PTSD: How Past Experiences Affect Your Mental Health
Trauma and PTSD often follow a deeply distressing event such as violence, kidnapping, armed robbery, a road accident, sexual assault, abuse or a sudden…
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Postpartum Depression in Mothers: What New Moms Need to Know
Postpartum depression is a medical illness that can begin during pregnancy or at any time in the first year after birth. It is not…
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Anxiety Disorder: Why You Always Feel Worried, Restless, or On Edge
An anxiety disorder develops when worry is excessive, hard to control, and present on most days for months, even when nothing is going wrong.…
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Signs of Depression: Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore
The signs of depression are easy to miss because depression is a medical condition, not weakness, laziness or a lack of faith. Doctors usually…
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