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  • Building Emotional Resilience For Persons With Chronic Conditions and Disabilities
    Emotional Resilience for Persons with Disabilities and persons with chronic conditions with Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychologist Divya Parashar. This was in the context of the COVID pandemic but there are lessons in there for all times. We talked about What is emotional resilience Anxieties faced by people with disabilities What is psychological resilience What makes people resilient How to build psychological resilience Effects of suspension of therapy due to covid How to overcome…
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    Men, Mental Health and the Reluctance to Seek Help
    Psychotherapist H'vovi Bhagwagar points out that today an increasing number of Indian men are feeling the pressure of gender role strain and need to be motivated to seek help for mental health issues. These issues are likely to be accentuated during the covid19 pandemic, the lockdown and the economic downturn. The stigma associated with therapy is a global phenomenon, and for a very long time it was believed that therapy was only for the very disturbed, poverty-ridden, drug addicts and the…
  • Are Sleep Disturbances Indicative of Mental Illness?
    Sleep disorders may make a person more vulnerable to psychiatric illnesses, intensify the severity of the symptoms points out Dr Nileena N.K.M, Specialist in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, and stresses the importance of better sleep for better life. Plus Tips For Good Sleep. What is the correlation between mental health and sleep? Sleep and mental health go very much hand in hand in our day to day life. Many of the psychiatric illnesses are seen to be associated with sleep complaints and…
  • Mental Health During Covid-19 Webinar
    Upcoming Webinar Series: Mental Health During Covid-19
    Mental Health is an increasing concern during Covid-19 due to restrictions, extended lockdown, distancing - social and physical. PatientsEngage and CMHLP - Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy are hosting a webinar series on ‘Mental Health During COVID-19’  COVID-19 is stressful for all of us especially in the context of the extended lockdown. There is a lot of uncertainty, confusion and fear around this lockdown and social distancing. On Monday 20th April 2020, 4pm IST…
  • Essential Hemophilia Drugs Not Available
    Due to the Coronavirus lockdown, majority of People with Hemophilia (PWH) are suffering in silence with severe pain by taking pain killers and homeopathic medicines prescribed by our doctors, informs Ramu Gadkar, Regional Chairperson Haemophilia Federation of India – Western Region. How has the Coronavirus lockdown affected the supply of lifesaving, essential drugs for hemophilia patients? These essential drugs come through courier via flight services from Hemophilia Federation of India (HFI),…
  • Community Awareness is important for the proper diagnosis and management of Hemophilia
    On occasion of World Hemophilia Day, Dr Chakraborty, Consultant Hemotologist,  shares his views on diagnosis and treatment of thalassemia as also on how the present crisis of Covid 19 is affecting People With Hemophilia. The theme of World Hemophilia Day in 2020 is “Get+involved”. Why should people get involved in bleeding disorders like Hemophilia? Hemophilias are a group of bleeding disorders where due to genetic transmission, clotting factors are either not produced or are produced…
  • Webinar Series: How Can Kidney Patients Stay Safe And Well During Covid-19
    A series of webinars in 10 languages in collaboration with Kidney Warriors Foundation. We will speak with Nephrologists and Transplant Surgeons and share experiences of empowered kidney patients Sessions planned are 15th April 4pm IST - English Dr. Ashish Sharma, Head, Dept of Renal Transplant Surgery , PGI Chandigarh and Dr. Dinesh Khullar, Chairman, Nephrology and Renal Transplant Medicine , Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket For the session in English on 15th April 4pm Please click…
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    What Nurses Want From Doctors And Patients
    We decided to find out what the nurses wanted - from patients, and from their doctor colleagues. We asked some of these hard-working professionals the following questions: What do nurses want from patients? What do nurses want from doctors? A thought for World health day! Nurse Priyanka Girkar Show respect and encourage participation. As a nurse, I can say that as more and more patients come to the door, doctors are pressuring you. They should also understand the pressure on the nurse. Nurses…
  • Telemedicine In India - A Guide For Families
    Telemedicine or e-medicine guidelines were finally passed in India last month. What does this mean for Indian patients and families? Swati Agrawal, a diversity and inclusion advocate has created this primer for us to understand the guidelines.  With the onslaught of COVID19, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare finally passed the Telemedicine Guidelines that were proposed nearly a decade ago. Due to social distancing and COVID19, reaching out to medical professionals and availing…