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…

An un-promising

An Un-promising

Myth: There is a typical profile for a person who may attempt suicide—all people who kill themselves are obviously depressed. Fact: Many suicidal people appear to be happier…

Mental health and Medicine

Mental Health: Medical Students Deserve Accessible Therapy Sessions

Before the mental health talk, let’s know a bit about me. I just scaled through one of the most demanding classes at OAU Medicine and Surgery— Part 4.…

Personality of the Week: Adeleke Stephen Oluwatobi

I picked medicine because I have always admired doctors and hate seeing people sick.

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

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

My opinion on bitterness and dealing with it

The first crucial step to dealing with bitterness, even before it comes, is to make reservations for people’s inadequacies. How?