If you’re married or in a long-term relationship, you may frown at the idea of seeing your therapist. To you, you may think that a relationship therapist is for couples who are broken, and they try to seek help as a last-ditch effort to fix something that can’t be repaired. But relationship therapists are great […]
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. Some times the causes of mental disorders are often unclear. This article looks at the five most common mental health disorders […]
Thoughts and emotions have the potential to take over our lives. All that we do seems to be controlled by what we feel. And when these feelings are unpleasant, its easy to feel trapped and overwhelmed thus affecting performance. Students who lose focus or motivation are typically discouraged. They are often discouraged because they feel […]
With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s time to talk about counseling. When it comes to receiving life advice and getting some help, many people turn to counseling. Counseling is good for any age, kids, teens, adults, seniors, and people who have addictions or mental health disorders. If you’re a university student, you may […]
The time they have long been waiting for has come. For their partners to finish campus and start staying together. However, they can not fight the fear of losing them. It is late January and in Uganda, the atmosphere is gay with graduation parties of Makerere University students in town and in the country. Unfortunately, […]
The use of alcohol and other substances during adolescence and early adulthood has become a serious public health problem at some universities and colleges in Uganda. This can be seen by the high number of patients admitted to Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital, majority of whom are university and high school students suffering from alcohol and […]