LIFESTYLE
Mental Health Awareness: Understanding Anxiety and Depression
Mental health awareness has been on the rise over the last decade, and while this is an important step that we need to take as a society to ensure that people who need help get that help, there is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding around common mental health conditions. In this article we break down what two of the most common conditions, anxiety and depression, are, what their symptoms look like and important steps that you can take to manage them.
To Reduce Stress, Help Your Child Develop Positive Feelings
Anxiety is a common, and often unaddressed problem for people of all ages. Anxiety in children can feel difficult to address for parents, however if left unacknolwedged it can grow into further mental health difficulties as your child gets older. Surjit Singh Flora writes about how parents can encourage positive feelings in their children and help them cope with their anxieties.
