Stress
Mental Health Check-In Moment: Three steps to deal with burnout
Dr Ela Manga chats about the symptoms of burnout and how to deal with it.
Working in a toxic environment could create mental health and physical health issues as well as a lack of motivation and low self-esteem, said CEO of ICHAF Training Institute, Devan Moonsamy.
Now that Haji Mohamed Dawjee is spending her first three hours of the day at the maximum, what happens with the rest of the time?
Racism operates at multiple levels to negatively affect health. Physical violence and rampant infectious diseases are the tip of the iceberg.
Soon after the first lockdowns started, people reported having more dreams than before, with different content.
Pharma Dynamics' Abdurahman Kenny said people from across the country participated in the survey and were asked about their mental health throughout the pandemic.
Social distancing has led to greater isolation and severe financial distress for many.
Afriforte MD Professor Ina Rothmann said the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an anxiety condition which 46% of employees were at high risk of experiencing.
A recent Sadag survey suggests that 55% of South Africans who called them had feelings of anxiety and panic and 46% were under financial stress and pressure.
The 'Game of Thrones' actor is taking time out from the spotlight to work on some 'personal issues' at a 'wellness retreat', his spokesperson has confirmed.
Some previous research suggests that people are drawn to wall-to-wall news coverage of traumatic events as a way to ease their apprehension and cope with stress, the study team notes.
While research showed that yoga didn’t appear to influence heart health, workplace yoga did have a positive effect on mental health and in stress reduction in particular.
The first giant is inequality – the huge growth in income and wealth disparities within countries that goes well beyond what is captured by measures such as the Gini coefficient.
It’s important to strike the right balance, but periods of some stress could improve performance, writes Daniel Thomas.
Researchers found that stress levels dropped in women who smelled their partner’s shirt during a stress test but rose in women who smelled a stranger’s shirt.
As a former US Navy SEAL commander, Jocko Willink, learned how to deal with stress that makes office anxiety not really seem so bad.
A scientific reports study indicates that third-person self-talk may constitute a relatively effortless form of self-control.
The study looked at what happens in the brain when people who are highly stressed try to empathise with others.
Two US researchers have traced the majority of cancers to DNA replication errors during our natural cell replacement. Their finding asks for a renewed inquiry into the role of "chance" in cancer.