The word “perinatal” refers to the time in a woman’s journey of childbirth and motherhood, that occurs before and after the birth of a child. “Perina ...
Emotional Triggers
It refers to an intense emotional response caused by any particular action, process, or situation. To be triggered does not simply mean that a person ...
Negging
Negging is a form of emotional manipulation, wherein a person deliberately, yet subtly conveys something negative to another. The ways range from cov ...
Non-Suicidal Self Injury
*Trigger Warning: Themes of Self Harm and Suicide NSSI includes behaviours like cutting, burning and hitting (oneself) which are often not carried ...
MOBBING
Bullying is not usually perpetuated by an individual alone, while it is a possibility. Usually however, for the bullying to sustain, the main person ...
Procrastination
Procrastination may temporarily make a person feel good, however, the build-up of tasks and decisions can lead to a negative spiral thought process w ...
Intrusive Thoughts
This phenomenon may have happened to everyone at some point of time or the other. The content of an intrusive thought may be a broad spectr ...
Toxic positivity
Toxic positivity is a phenomenon where in being positive or putting a positive spin on things is taken to the extreme, to the point of a person ...
Codependency Awareness Month
It's Codependency Awareness Month, and we are bringing a spotlight on this issue for this upcoming week! Initially, this term was used in the cont ...
Trauma
Trauma is the term used to describe the intense emotional upheaval arising from a deeply distressing or disturbing event. This even may alter the cou ...
Moodswings
Moodswings is a term that refers to a quick significant change in mood. This experience is sometimes expressed as a “roller-coaster” of emotions as t ...
Burnout
Burnout is a state characterised by emotional, bodily, and mental exhaustion as a result of constant and excessive stress and being unable to meet co ...
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity refers to variances in brain function that affects daily cognition from person to person. Neurodiversity views disparities in brain fu ...
Types of empathy
Empathy is the capacity to understand how another person may be feeling from their frame of reference and not our own. Simply put this means to see t ...
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse which refers to the act of manipulating (someone) into questioning their own reality or meaning making o ...
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
Have you ever found yourself bingeing on your favourite series or book all night long, while fighting sleep? Or doom scrolling through your social me ...
Selfcare
Introducing WordyWednesdays with Mental Health at work. Here is a space to deconstruct, reimagine and introspect on certain terms and understand thei ...