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Community Mental HealthHelping your Third Culture Kid navigate loss

October 10, 202111 min

Third Culture Kids are those who have spent a portion of their formative years in a different culture — both from their friends back home, but from their parents, as well. In the UAE, where expats represent 88 per cent of the population, TCKs abound. While studies show that expat children are more flexible and better able to cope with change, living in transient communities can also have adverse effects. TCKs have more experience grappling...

by Rym Ghazal

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Community Health Mental HealthHow lessons from the Islamic Golden Age can help mental health today

September 15, 202119 min

There is a lot of wisdom to be gleaned from figures in Middle East history -- from Al Kindi to Al Razi to Ibn Khaldoun to many more -- about modern mental health.

by Devinder Bains

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Community Mental HealthDid Covid-19 ruin our friendships?

August 26, 202112 min

They live in Abu Dhabi and they had been friends for years. Before Covid-19, they spoke on a daily basis and made sure to meet up at least once a week. But as lockdown hit, and personal contact became restricted, they found themselves starting to drift apart. Even when restrictions began to lift, Zainab still didn’t feel safe enough to venture out, and refused to meet up with Soraya, who was eager to get back...

by Asha Sherwood

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CommunityHow to help children mentally prepare for school

August 25, 202110 min

Are your kids heading back to the classroom for the new term? Or are you once again planning on distance learning in a bid to keep them safe from Covid-19? If it’s the former, you’re not alone. Despite the dangers of the ongoing pandemic, more than 63 percent of parents in the emirate of Abu Dhabi voted to let children return to school in July 2020, when the virus was causing lockdowns all over the...

by Anna Pukas

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Community Mental HealthSoph Wellness: ‘Half the problem is that kids don’t feel heard’

August 17, 202114 min

Sisters Sophiya and Sarah Fiazal used their own experiences with mental health issues to launch a platform for people of their own generation, and will soon open their own wellness studio in Dubai.

by Anna Pukas

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Community Health Mental HealthYou need to get yourself a hobby

July 28, 202121 min

Pursuing a hobby not only gives enjoyment and pleasure, it is actually vital to our general mental and emotional well-being

by Georgie Bradley

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Health Mental HealthCan’t afford therapy? How to deal with depression on a budget

July 4, 202120 min

There are so many layers to depression and it can be an incredibly destabilising period in a person’s life. The common recommendation is to see a mental health professional, but with therapy costing hundreds of dirhams just for one session, that is just not an option for most of the population here in the UAE. Despite the fact that globally, more than 264 million people of all ages suffer from depression, according to the World...

by Georgie Bradley

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CommunityMy work, nurse edition: ‘The work is heavy’

May 12, 20217 min

In the Livehealthy series, “My work,” we delve into how people deal with job stress. We do this anonymously so people can be totally honest about their experiences without fear of reprisal. For this piece, and to celebrate International Nurses’ Day, a psychiatric nurse at a government hospital in Bahrain recounts her experience to Georgie Bradley. The work day for a nurse is never a straight eight hours. Something always come up, especially when you think...

by Alexa Mena

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Community Mental HealthKayan Mental Health is changing school curriculums

April 12, 20219 min

Two young doctors want to make mental-health education available to those that they believe need it most – young kids and teens. Kayan Mental Health offers mental health education sessions for students.

by Anna Pukas

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Health Livehealthy FestivalHow much of our immunity is in our mind?

March 2, 20219 min

The mind is a powerful tool in boosting immunity and our capacity to heal but research shows that negative emotions can harm our immune response and unprocessed trauma seeps into our DNA to be passed down the generations.

by Anna Pukas

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Community HealthDon’t fall for the invincibility fallacy now the vaccine is here

January 27, 202112 min

A year of Covid has left us feeling exhausted and irritable and has brought more conflict into the lives of some couples and families. Vaccines are a ray of hope but we should not fall into the trap of believing that being vaccinated makes us invincible.

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