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 wide range of effective treatments is available for major depressive disorder. Medication alone and brief psychotherapy (for example cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy) alone can relieve depressive symptoms. There is also empirical support for the ability of brief psychotherapy (CBT) to prevent relapse. In children and adolescents, however, pharmacotherapy by itself is insufficient treatment. Moreover, […]
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 […]
When young adults get into a relationship, they are overtaken by excitement and joy Young people from the ages of 16 to 22 are usually new in the love triangle and therefore know little or nothing about the challenges that comes with a relationship. Rejoicing over the independence and freedom from their parents’ rules and […]
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, […]
It is every one’s wish to have a happy and cheerful relationship though we all know that no marriage will ever be perfect or without problems, but premarital counseling can help you work through your difficulties and learn to keep your love alive even through the hardest times. Ideally, with counseling you will learn how […]
Thousands of teenagers live with various types of mental illness and mental health problems, such as social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, drug addiction, and personality disorders. Medication and psychotherapy are some of the treatment options for mental illness. Mental health includes how you act, feel, and think in different situations. Teens have mental health problems […]
Many high school students think life at campus is one of the best one can ever enjoy during the education journey but this has never been true for all university students. A number of University students are faced with emotional health issues and mental disorders that negatively affect their academic performance. According to a study done by Nsereko […]