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How Your Mind Affects Your Feelings of Anxiety and Stress
By Andrea Gibbs Do you ever find yourself struggling to stay focused, on task, and calm during stressful situations? When you feel stressed out, your body is flooded with chemicals that negatively affect your mind. These chemicals and the thoughts they can create lead to a full-blown racing mind that makes it nearly impossible for…
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Signs of Burnout on the mental health of teenagers
By Betty Brown Burnout is a state of mental, emotional and physical exhaustion that occurs as a result of chronic stress. In teens, it is often triggered by study stress and is particularly common during exam season. These are common signs of burnout. Signs of burnout include poor sleep, irritability, self-isolation and loss of interest in…
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Remote working: Top tips for managing your own workload
By Betty Brown Remote working is becoming increasingly popular, seeing a significant increase from only 14.5% of workers in 2019 to 30.6% in 2022. Of course, the catalyst for this change was the COVID-19 pandemic, but statistics show that many businesses are now continuing to allow their staff to work remotely. With remote working comes…
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Doomscrolling Awareness
By Martin Preston Doomscrolling, meaning obsessively scanning social media and websites for bad news, can promote feelings of anxiety, and depression and can result in burnout. The high level of stress can cause a lack of appetite, and an inability to sleep and go about everyday tasks. Compulsively watching the news and doomscrooling can cause…
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Neurodiversity in the workplace: 4 tips for your recruitment process
By Betty Brown Neurodiversity refers to the differences in brain functions and behavioural traits of individuals. This umbrella term is typically used to cover an array of conditions, such as ADHD, autism and dyslexia. Neurological diversity is considered to be a part of normal variation in humans, and it’s more commonly being seen as a…
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Sex and Mental Health Issues
By Bona Many people in the Western part of Africa ignore that sex can cause pleasure but also prove that it could lead mental health issues also. God created sex to enjoy as couples or partners and also allow childbirth. Intercourse is a way that a female and a male come together to have an…
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