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Troubled With Postpartum Bipolar Disorder Expert Shares Tips To Manage

2025-04-14 - 2025-04

Society often places unrealistic expectations on mothers to be perfect caregivers. This stigma can prevent women from seeking the help they need. It’s essential to open doors for candid conversations around postpartum mental health.

Postpartum is often painted as a joyful yet challenging period for new mothers. However, for some women, this phase can bring in intense mood swings, erratic energy levels, and periods of depression or mania—symptoms associated with Postpartum Bipolar Disorder (PPBD).

PPBD is a mood disorder that emerges during or after pregnancy. Unlike the baby blues or even postpartum depression, it involves episodes of mania and depression. Mania may manifest as heightened energy levels, reduced need for sleep, and impulsive decision-making, while depression can bring on feelings of hopelessness, fatigue, and an inability to bond with the baby.

Our expert, Dr Ruchi Srivastav, Senior Consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sharda Care Hospital, Noida, sheds light on this under-discussed condition and offers practical strategies to cope. Explaining the condition she explains, “PPBD is caused by a combination of hormonal shifts, genetic predispositions, and psychological stress.” Let’s understand its symptoms and tips to manage.

UK riots led to deterioration in asylum seekers’ mental health, says report

2025-04-15 - 2025-04

Last summer’s riots, which took place after the murder of three girls at a Southport dance class, led to a deterioration in the mental health of asylum seekers, with many becoming fearful of walking down the street in case they were targeted by far-right protesters, according to a report.

The report from the Mental Health Foundation, published on Tuesday, identified a decline in the mental health of asylum seekers as a result of the civil unrest and attacks on hotels, compared with the state of their mental health when they published a similar report in February 2024.

Mark Rowland, the chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: “One key development since our last report has been that the racist riots of summer 2024 had a terrible impact on the mental health of many people seeking asylum in UK. Some people told us they were scared to leave their accommodation, risking increased isolation, and others said they feared they’d be attacked walking down the street just because of the colour of their skin.”

'Sunshine Guilt' Leads To Summertime Sadness For Nearly Half Of Americans — Which States Suffer The Most

2025-04-16 - 2025-04

We’re all familiar with the negative, depressive emotions that come during the colder, darker months of the year. Typically, we think of the summer months as being the literal rays of sunshine that cut through the emotional gray of winter.

However, a recent TikTok trend has led people to share their feelings regarding “sunshine guilt,” or feelings of guilt and depression that occur during the summer. Forbes Health conducted a survey to determine just how prevalent this sunshine guilt is.

Sunshine guilt or experiencing depression and other negative symptoms during the summer is not uncommon.
Forbes Health surveyed 2,000 “general population Americans” to determine how bad symptoms of sunshine guilt were. 48% of participants admitted to having negative mental health symptoms at some point during the summer, with the most typical being anxiety, stress, problems sleeping, and depression.

Chris Martin says he suffers from depression, Coldplay fans react: 'I wanted to talk...'

2025-04-17 - 2025-04

After performing at a Coldplay concert in Hong Kong, Chris Martin shared a heartfelt message with his fans. In this rare and honest moment, he opened up about his mental health struggles and spoke about the methods he uses to stay emotionally balanced.

His message gave fans a unique and personal look into how he manages life behind the scenes, beyond the spotlight. He said, “Hi, this is Chris from Coldplay. We’re in Hong Kong... I’ve noticed that some people lately, including myself, are struggling a little bit with depression,” Martin began. “So I wanted to talk to you about some things that are helping me on tour and in life in general, in the hope that they can help you as well.”

Doctor shares what to eat for mental health and what to avoid: ‘Eating processed foods can worsen your mental health’

2025-04-19 - 2025-04

We all have our go-to comfort foods, but what we eat might be doing more than just satisfying cravings. From mood dips to feeling anxious or low, our daily diet could be shaping how we feel mentally too. In his April 4 podcast, Stanford neurobiology professor Andrew Huberman spoke with Harvard psychiatrist Dr Chris Palmer about how food choices can affect mental health.
haring a clip from their conversation on Instagram, Huberman wrote in the caption, “The idea that what we eat can impact our mood and mental health comes at no surprise. However, it's only recently that scientific and clinical studies have begun to establish the powerful relationship between eating highly processed foods and mental health disorders. Alterations in mitochondria likely represent the bridge between these two factors.”

Nearly half of teens say social media is bad for youth mental health, report finds New York

2025-04-23 - 2025-04

The impact of social media on young people's mental health and well-being is a growing topic of concern among parents, educators, health care professionals and regulators. And now, nearly half of US teens say social media has a mostly negative effect on people their age - and almost the same proportion say they're cutting back on social media use.

That's according to a Pew Research Center report published Tuesday that asked American teens and parents about their attitudes around social media and smartphones. It offers an updated glimpse into how teens view their own social media use, following a separate Pew study from December that found nearly half of US teens say they're online almost constantly.

The report comes as parents and regulators have called on social media companies to do more to keep young people safe - and prevent them from spending too much time - on their platforms.

Dhanbad woman slammed for calling son's anxiety 'nautanki' in viral video

2025-04-24 - 2025-04

A woman from Dhanbad was slammed online after she shared a video she recorded of her son possibly experiencing anxiety. The internet accused her of turning a distressing moment into content.
A Dhanbad-based woman found herself at the receiving end of the internet after she shared a video of her son appearing visibly distressed while doing his homework.

The video, shared by Saloni Agarwal on Instagram, shows the boy telling his mother that he is struggling to breathe. Instead of comforting him, Saloni is heard questioning him with a sarcastic remark: "You were breathing fine while playing earlier."

Study shows significant increase in mental health diagnoses among publicly insured children

2025-04-25 - 2025-04

In the first comprehensive investigation into the trends of mental health diagnoses among children with public health insurance, a new study reports the percentage of mental health and neurodevelopmental disorder diagnoses increased substantially in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers from Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta used Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program claims data to analyze trends in mental health and neurodevelopmental disorder diagnoses among nearly 30 million publicly insured children ages 3-17 across 22 U.S. states from 2010-2019.

The study, which was published in JAMA on Thursday, found the percentage of children diagnosed with such disorders in each year rose from 10.7% to 16.5% during this period. After accounting for population changes over time, this translated into an increase of 6.7 percentage points.

“The size of the increase is alarming and clinically significant on its own. But it is even more concerning that we saw this increase and our last year of data was 2019, when we know from other sources that mental health among children continued to decline after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic," says lead author Janet Cummings, PhD, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health.

Using smartwatches to better understand psychiatric illness

2025-04-28 - 2025-04

Wearable sensors such as smartwatches that collect physical and physiological data may be powerful tools in the effort to better understand brain and behavioral illnesses and their genetic drivers, a new Yale study finds.

Using smartwatch data collected from more than 5,000 adolescents, Yale researchers were able to train AI models to predict whether individuals had different psychiatric illnesses and uncover illness-associated genes. The findings, published Dec. 19 in the journal Cell, suggest wearable sensors may enable a much more nuanced understanding — and treatment — of psychiatric illness.

“In traditional psychiatry, a doctor will assess your symptoms and you’ll either be diagnosed with an illness or you won’t,” said co-senior author Mark Gerstein, the Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, of computer science, and of statistics and data science. “But in this study, we focused on processing the wearable data in a meaningful way that could both be leveraged to predict illnesses more comprehensively, and to better connect with underlying genetic factors.”

Hoarding a mental health emergency - group warns

2025-04-29 - 2025-04

Hoarding in the UK has become a "mental health emergency" which requires an urgent response, a leading social enterprise has warned.

Clouds End CIC has been supporting more than 300 people who hoard in Birmingham, helping them to declutter their homes and encouraging them to attend mental health support groups.

It is an intervention project funded by Birmingham City Council, working closely with social services.

Estimates suggest 2-5% of the UK population may have hoarding disorder, which the World Health Organisation classified as a mental health condition in 2018. However, Heather Matuozzo, founder of Clouds End CIC, says the true number will have risen significantly since the pandemic.

MERIT Therapy for Schizophrenia and Serious Mental Illness

2025-04-30 - 2025-04

MERIT is one of several metacognitive psychotherapies, designed especially to meet the needs of individuals living with serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia. It is deliverable in both group and individual settings, and it aims to improve metacognitive capacities through specialized interventions.

Metacognitive Capacities and Psychosis
Metacognition is a word utilized in fields ranging from education to mental health, often with subtle differences in meaning. Broadly, it references how one thinks about the process of thinking, or one's own cognition in particular. Therefore, the simplest definition of metacognition might be understanding how we and others think. It involves self-reflection, understanding others, considering greater trends, and using all this information to make meaning and move toward our valued goals.

Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health

2025-05-02 - 2025-05

The Trump administration has halted $1 billion for mental health services for children, saying that the programs funded by a bipartisan law aimed at stemming gun violence in schools were no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.”

Lawmakers authorized the money in 2022 after a former student opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers and injuring 17 others. The measure, known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, broke a decades-long impasse between congressional Republicans and Democrats on addressing gun violence by focusing largely on improving mental health support for students.

Former Fetterman Aide Expressed Concern to Doctor About Senator’s Mental Health

2025-05-03 - 2025-05

The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, was so alarmed with his ex-boss’s erratic behavior last year that he wrote a lengthy letter to his doctor warning that the senator was spiraling out of control and that his mental health issues could cost him his life.

“I’m worried that if John stays on his current trajectory he won’t be with us for much longer,” Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff, wrote on May 20 to a doctor who had treated Mr. Fetterman at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Mr. Fetterman’s behavior, according to former aides who are still connected to his diminishing circle, is still at times a cause of concern. Other former members of his staff, speaking on the condition of anonymity, report that their colleagues sometimes were frightened to be in the senator’s presence, if he was in an amped-up mood.

V.A. Mental Health Care Staff, Crowded into Federal Buildings, Raise Patient Privacy Alarms

2025-05-05 - 2025-05

In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members.

And in South Florida, psychiatric nurses have been treating veterans with mental health conditions in a hallway near a bathroom, sitting down with them in a makeshift medical bay jury-rigged out of filing cabinets and a translucent screen.

“People walking by can hear everything that’s going on,” said Bill Frogameni, an acute care psychiatric nurse at the Miami V.A. hospital and director of the local chapter of the National Nurses United union, referring to the patient intake setup in a V.A. outpatient facility in Homestead, Fla., outside Miami.

Obesity and Poor Diet Quality Widespread in Severe Mental Illness

2025-05-06 - 2025-05

A survey of adults with severe mental illness reported obesity in 42% of participants, along with poor diet quality and ineffective weight management despite efforts, highlighting gaps in current weight management approaches.

Researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey using online, postal, or researcher-assisted methods and included 529 adults (mean age, 49.3 years; 58% men) with severe mental illness.
Participants were required to have a documented diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder.
Data on physical activity and sedentary behaviour, diet, medication use, body mass index, mental health, and sociodemographic measures were collected in two phases: Pre–COVID-19 pandemic (before March 2020) and post-onset (June 2021 to March 2022).

KU professor leads collaboration across disciplines to teach perinatal mental health care

2025-05-07 - 2025-05

Mental health conditions are the most common complication of pregnancy and childbirth, affecting one in five pregnant and postpartum women every year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Yet three-quarters go untreated and undiagnosed.

Part of the reason for this shortage in care is that fewer than 500 psychiatrists in the United States are trained in providing reproductive mental health care to the 800,000 women a year who experience maternal mental health complications, according to the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance.

Erin Bider, M.D., clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, is looking to change that. Bider’s expertise in perinatal psychiatry — honed during her internship and residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — makes her uniquely qualified to address the overall lack of training in maternal mental health care.

Scroll. Post. Break Down: The mental health cost of being an influencer

2025-05-08 - 2025-05

When 28-year-old influencer Misha Aggarwal was found dead by suicide recently, her followers were stunned. Just a few days earlier, she was posting upbeat reels, endorsing beauty brands, and sharing "get ready with me" videos. But beneath the filtered glow of her Instagram life was a spiral of anxiety, self-doubt, and depression, reportedly triggered by a sudden drop in her follower count and post engagement.

What is body dysmorphia Karan Johar opens up about mental health condition

2025-05-09 - 2025-05

Director and producer, Karan Johar recently revealed that he has been going through a mental health condition called body dysmorphia. Bollywood is known for its unusual expectations of physical appearance from the industry members. Actors are known to have gone on strict diets and tiring workout regimes to mark the benchmark set by the beauty industry. Karan Johar opened up about battling this condition and that he “couldn’t even look at himself in the mirror”.

What is body dysmorphia
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) or commonly called as body dysmorphia is defined by the NHS as “a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others. People of any age can have BDD, but it’s most common in teenagers and young adults. It affects both men and women. Having BDD does not mean you’re vain or self-obsessed. It can be very upsetting and have a big impact on your life.”

IIT Kharagpur forms committee to enhance campus mental health

2025-05-13 - 2025-05

The committee is tasked with assessing the multiple factors, be they primary, secondary, or tertiary, and the impact on the mental health of students, faculty, and staff. It will also identify challenges such as inadequate resources, administrative shortfalls, and academic pressures that may hinder the resolution of mental health issues on campus.

According to an official statement, the committee aims to gather comprehensive inputs, engaging with all stakeholders, to recommend measures that can strengthen the institute’s mental health ecosystem. The committee is expected to submit its report within three months

Burnout is real. Miami experts say you should follow this advice to ease stress

2025-05-14 - 2025-05

Happiness laughing with loved ones, a purpose in life, something to look forward to is a factor in whether a person will live a healthy and long life, experts say.

Eating healthy, sleeping well and staying active critical lifestyle changes that can promote healthy aging are easier to track. But happiness can be difficult to measure, and at times, difficult to feel.

“How do you feel happy if you're dealing with dementia How do you feel happy if you're a caregiver How do you feel happy if you're unhoused and dealing with multiple chronic conditions It's a real challenge,” said Joy Siegel, a professor at Nova Southeastern University.

Siegel is also a board member of the private not-for-profit Alliance for Aging. The organization provides resources and services to seniors, their families and caregivers in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

Mental health in emergencies

2025-05-16 - 2025-05

Almost all people affected by emergencies experience psychological distress, which typically improves over time.
One in five people (22%) who have experienced war or conflict in the previous 10 years has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Emergencies significantly disrupt mental health services and reduce the availability of quality care.
People with severe mental health conditions are especially vulnerable during emergencies and need access to mental health care and other basic needs.

Poor mental health as child limits capacity to work in later life, study finds

2025-05-19 - 2025-05

Children in Great Britain with serious mental health conditions are two-thirds more likely to have a limited ability to work in adulthood, according to research from a leading thinktank.

The report by researchers at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at data from about 6,000 people who took part in the 1970 British Cohort Study, which is following the lives of individuals born in a single week in 1970 across Great Britain.

The analysis found that people who had severe mental and behavioural issues as a child were 85% more likely to have symptoms of depression at the age of 51, and 68% more likely to have a long-term condition that affects their ability to work.

Children with a physical health problem were 38% more likely to have limited capacity for work in later life, according to the analysis.

Dassault Systemes and the FondaMental Foundation Launch a Sovereign and Secured Nationwide Health Data Warehouse in France Dedicated to Psychiatry

2025-05-20 - 2025-05

Dassault Systemes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) and the FondaMental Foundation today announced their collaboration to deploy a nationwide Health Data Warehouse (HDW) in France dedicated to psychiatry. This project aligns with France’s 2025 public health priorities: strengthening diagnostic and therapeutic research and innovation capabilities by structuring and leveraging complex clinical data within a sovereign and highly secure framework, to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Through the deployment of this Health Data Warehouse, Dassault Systemes - with its OUTSCALE brand - addresses the growing needs for health data security for processing and analysis. It supports the FondaMental Foundation’s work on complex conditions such as bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, treatment-resistant depression, and autism spectrum disorders.

The OUTSCALE sovereign cloud, certified for Health Data Hosting and qualified SecNumCloud 3.2 by ANSSI, meets the highest standards for protecting sensitive data, especially health data. It provides a high-performance, sovereign, and scalable cloud environment, combining computing power, trusted infrastructure, and an optimized network to advance scientific understanding of mental health conditions while enabling more precise and personalized care approaches.

The evolving voice of mental health in advertising

2025-05-21 - 2025-05

The first time I encountered a conversation about mental health, I wasn’t even part of it; I was eavesdropping on my family talking in hushed tones about someone who seemed deeply distressed. But the secrecy around it meant I didn’t really understand what was going on, or why it mattered, until much later. When I grew older and found myself overwhelmed by my own thoughts, I was fortunate to have people around me who simply listened and did not try to teach me how to swim when I was drowning.

St Agnes School CBSE hosts capacity building programme on student mental health and wellness

2025-05-26 - 2025-05

Mangaluru, May 25: St Agnes School CBSE, Mangaluru, organized a capacity building programme on mental health and wellness among students for its facilitators on May 24. The session aimed to equip educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to support the holistic development of students and foster a supportive learning environment that prioritizes mental well-being.

The programme commenced with a symbolic and traditional invocation of divine blessings, followed by the ceremonial presentation of the lamp to the resource persons. Josephine extended a warm welcome to the gathering and introduced the distinguished resource persons for the session. Dr Shashikumar K C principal, Vidyadayinee English Medium CBSE School, Surathkal, Mangaluru.

Mental disorders significantly impact youth aged 10-14 in Singapore: Lancet study

2025-05-28 - 2025-05

SINGAPORE - Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability and death among 10- to 14-year-olds in Singapore, while the impact of mental distress on population health here is the highest in Asean, according to a new paper published in medical journal Lancet Public Health on May 28.

In 2021, the prevalence of mental disorders here was estimated at 12.8 per cent among males and 11.7 per cent among females.

Altogether, 653,000 diagnoses of mental disorders were made in Singapore that year, including among those above 70 years of age, an age group that experienced a threefold rise from 1990 in the number of cases.

Talkspace integrates with Amazon Pharmacy for psychiatry services

2025-05-30 - 2025-05

A virtual behavioral healthcare provider, is collaborating with Amazon Pharmacy to streamline the pharmacy encounter for Talkspace members, allow for medication management and offer support for providers.

The alliance will enable Talkspace members to fill prescriptions from their Talkspace provider via Amazon Pharmacy.

Both new and returning Talkspace customers will be able to select Amazon Pharmacy as a free home delivery option. Alternatively, if the patient prefers, a Talkspace psychiatric provider can forward prescriptions directly to Amazon Pharmacy.

Customers who shop on Amazon will have the ability to determine coverage for Talkspace therapy and psychiatry services via Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector website.

"This partnership builds on our successful collaboration with Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector last year and represents another way consumers can access the care they need," Dr. Jon Cohen, CEO of Talkspace, said in a statement.

Corporate health crisis: 1 in 5 employees seek mental health support, 20% ready to quit as chronic illness hits before 40

2025-05-31 - 2025-05

One in five employees is seeking mental health support. Nearly 20 percent are considering quitting their jobs due to burnout. And chronic lifestyle-related illnesses — from hypertension to diabetes — are hitting Indians before they turn 40.

This is the current reality inside India’s glass-walled offices and buzzing co-working hubs. The very same professionals powering the country’s digital economy are burning out — fast.

Plum, an employee health benefits platform, has released its Employee Health Report 2025, offering a comprehensive view into the growing health burdens faced by India’s white-collar workers.

Drawing from over 100,000 telehealth consultations, 25,000 insurance claims, 1,998 health camp screenings, and 512 survey responses, the report paints a deeply concerning picture: chronic diseases are hitting Indians earlier than ever before, mental health issues are escalating, and burnout is driving a significant portion of the workforce to consider quitting.

These 5 Serious Signs Signal Your Mental Health is Declining

2025-06-02 - 2025-06

Mental health does not usually collapse overnight. It declines quietly through subtle shifts in mood, energy, and behaviour that are easy to dismiss or explain away. But these changes can be early warning signs that your emotional wellbeing is under strain. In a world that rewards constant productivity and distraction, it is easy to overlook what your mind is trying to tell you. Recognising these signs early can make a crucial difference in getting the support you need.

Your teen's mental health may be tied to what their mother endures at home

2025-06-03 - 2025-06

Have you ever wondered what happens in a child’s mind when they see their mother suffer silently at home

A new study titled Examining the impact of maternal experiences of domestic violence on the mental health of their adolescent children in India, published in the medical journal PLOS One, reveals that when mothers face domestic abuse, their adolescent children are more likely to develop anxiety, depression, and other common mental disorders.

Based on data from 2,784 mother-child pairs across seven states in India, the study uncovers the reality that violence at home doesn’t just break women, it silently breaks the mental well-being of the next generation as well.

The Head and the Heart: Managing a ‘Silent Epidemic’

2025-06-07 - 2025-06

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause for premature mortality in patients with mental illness, particularly those with severe psychiatric disorders.

The numbers bear out the link: The life expectancy of a person with severe mental illness is 15-20 years shorter than that of unaffected individuals, largely thanks to the effects of cardiac conditions. Patients with depression have a two to fourfold increased risk for developing CVD and a two to fourfold higher risk for mortality after experiencing a cardiac event compared to individuals without depression.

A panel discussion at the 2025 annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology held in Madrid, Spain, in conjunction with the Inter-American Society of Cardiology explored the intersection of the heart and the mind. Panelist Donata Kurpas MD, PhD, of Wroclaw Medical University, in Wrocaw, Poland, called the burden of CVD in people with mental illness a “silent epidemic” and encouraged attendees to “rethink cardiovascular prevention” in the psychiatric conditions of their patients.

Revolutionary smart dental floss tracks your stress in real time

2025-06-10 - 2025-06

Stress is a natural response to life’s challenges. Short-term stress can help you stay focused. But long-term stress is linked to health problems like high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and heart disease. Detecting and managing chronic stress is vital to staying healthy. Yet, the tools we use to measure stress haven’t kept up. Right now, people often rely on questionnaires or psychiatric evaluations, which are subjective and don’t give instant feedback. Blood tests can track stress hormones, but they’re not convenient for daily use. They need lab visits and equipment most people don’t have access to.

'Gambling addiction cost my sick mum thousands'

2025-06-11 - 2025-06

The daughter of a woman who became addicted to slot machines and lost thousands while undergoing cancer treatment is calling on the government to introduce tougher controls.

Jackie Olden said her late mother Wendy Hughes got hooked after working at a bookmakers where she was asked to play the machines on a free demonstration mode to help drum up customer interest.

She said it prompted Ms Hughes, who died from cancer in 2024 at the age of 64, to begin playing slots in her own time before spiralling into debt.

Ms Olden said: "My mum was never someone who would have gambled before this, she was absolutely dedicated to her family."

Pune’s BJMC Psychiatry dept head Dr Niteen Abhivant dies during trek near Shimla

2025-06-12 - 2025-06

The 42-year-old head of the Department of Psychiatry at B J Medical College in Pune died while trekking in Himachal Pradesh Monday, his colleagues said Wednesday as they expressed shock at his untimely death.

Dr Niteen Abhivant was a part of a group that had gone trekking to Buran Ghati in Himachal Pradesh, said Dr Nishikant Thorat, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, B J Medical College. “The group had commenced the trek and were at the base level,” added Dr Thorat, who attended his final rites in Solapur Wednesday morning.

How Tech Could Help Manage Anxiety - The Most Common Mental Health Problem

2025-06-13 - 2025-06

Cambridge:
Anxiety disorders are the world's most common mental health problem. But it isn't always easy to get professional help, with long waiting lists in many countries.

Worldwide, only about 28% of people with anxiety receive treatment. The figure is similar for the UK, and in the US about 37% receive a treatment. This is due to a number of factors such as lack of resources, including mental health staff, and stigma associated with mental health problems.

International Conference on Yoga, Medicine and Mental Health

Organizing Committee Members

Dr Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer

Mmatsheko Mosito

Dr Srinivas M

Dr Anthony J Fischetto

Dr Uqbah Iqbal

Sam Vaknin

Dr M Rajajeyakumar