Behavioural sciences
[Video] Perinatal Depression: The Silent Killer Among Women?
Heard of perinatal depression before? Well, it’s a very common disorder amongst women yet very little is known about...
Lone Clinic In Syria’s Rebel North Tackles War’s Mental Toll
At an austere mental health clinic in northern Syria, male patients with shaved heads squat barefoot in a courtyard,...
Israeli ‘mental First-Aid’ Method Offered To Attack Victims Abroad
An Israeli who developed an unorthodox model for treating mental trauma and preventing post-traumatic stress disorder...
Your Male Friend Proposed To You and So What?
I am a bit bewildered about this unwritten and silent rule that almost makes it look like it’s a taboo for a man to...
Suicidologist Campaigns Discrimination Against Suicide
Dr Joseph Osafo, a Clinical Psychologist and Suicidologist, is advocating the de-criminalisation of suicide from the...
10 Habits of Likeable Leaders
If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likeable leader. Tyrants and...
Ghana Prisons Now ‘cocaine, Wee, Mobile Phone Market’ – Ex-Convict
Several reports of unlawful practices that exist in prisons across the country have reached the desk of Top FM which...
Family Doctors Fear That the Worst Is Yet To Come
The theme for this year’s celebration is ‘Depression and suicide - the role of the family physician’ Family...
Female Shop Mannequins Are ‘medically Unhealthy’ and ‘unrealistic.
The bodies of female shop mannequins are "unrealistic", a new study in the Journal of Eating Disorders suggests....
Female Shop Mannequins Are ‘medically Unhealthy’ and ‘unrealistic’
The bodies of female shop mannequins are “unrealistic”, a new study in the Journal of Eating Disorders suggests....
Depression… the Silent Killer
Sixteen years ago my family and I got involved in a traffic accident and unfortunately, our youngest brother Apache...
Mental Health Authority Starts Campaign To Fight Depression
The Mental Health Authority in collaboration with World Health Organization has today April 7, launched a campaign to...
10 Signs Your Partner Is Manipulating You
Those who are attracted to the manipulative type are usually those who want to make others happy. “People pleasers”...
40% of People In Ghana Are Depressed – Psychologist
Depression is a health condition which is prevalent in Ghana, with four to five out of every 10 persons suffering from...
Depression and Spate of Suicide In Ghana [Article]
According to an updated fact of the World Health Organisation (WHO, March 2017), one of the key facts of depression is:...
Posting Your Problems On Social Media Is Dangerous
A Clinical Psychologist at the Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, has advised the...
14-Year Old Girl Defiled By Five Men At Nkawkaw Undergoes Treatment
'She is blaming herself for her ordeal and with that; it has made her self-esteem very low...' Doctors at the Komfo...
Ghana’s Seven Per Cent Loss In GDP Can Be Reversed
The seven per cent loss in Ghana's gross domestic product (GDP) due to psychological distress can be reversed through...
Pay Attention To Mental Health Care
An appeal has been made to the government to focus its attention on mental health care. Madam Ruth Okyere of the Mind...