There is something that hearing some statements does to your mental health as a medical student. Imagine hearing a Professor tell you in your first year that starting…
mental health
Hormonal Imbalances and Your Mental Health.
Hormones are chemical messengers that play crucial role in regulating various biological and physiological processes including our behaviour, mood and emotional well-being. They play significant roles in maintaining…
Impact Of Diet On Mental Health
The impact of diet on mental health cannot be overemphasized. There is a mutual and complex relationship between the food and the mind. As medical students, we engage…
Self-Care
Self-care. It’s a word that’s been thrown around lately. We see videos of someone with a towel wrapped around their head wearing a charcoal mask and holding a…
Management of Anxiety
For a feeling most of us tag as unpleasant, anxiety can be beneficial – if it’s well managed.
The Nigerian Government Leaves its Citizens in Chains
So, praying that it suffices, we offer words of encouragement instead, like a band-aid over a gunshot wound.
Multiple Persons in One Body: Dissociative Identity Disorder
It is one of those mental illnesses that have been sensationalized and exaggerated by movie industries, leading many people to get the wrong idea about what it truly is.
Impostor Syndrome: When We Fight a Battle Within Us
Do you feel guilty when people give you accolades for an achievement? Or fear that you’re not skilful or talented enough? You might be experiencing impostor syndrome.
How Trauma Changes Your Brain
Say a terrorist group abducted a group of about 200 students from their school. What puts some of these students at risk of developing PTSD after release, and some not?
How society is slowly but surely poisoning itself.
We evolved as social creatures, understanding that the type of society most well-suited for our survival was one where we all functioned as parts of a whole