Mental Health messages aired to Millions of Pakistanis
Samaa and Dawn News are now supporting Taskeen channelizing the content to reach masses (Taskeen Media Desk) Mass media in Pakistan has always been an effective tool to aware people...
What are the cultural barriers that stop sufferers from seeking help?
As many health beliefs and behaviors are culturally-based and their treatment is contingent upon how much the society is educated about mental illness and its deteriorating impact onto the sufferers....
Ways to Help Someone Who Is Struggling With Mental Illness
“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I” is replaced with “WE” illness becomes wellness.” Shannon L. Alder The journey of mental illness to mental wellness...
Have you ever imagined who has determined gender roles? Who has defined masculinity or feminism? They are just a set of attributes or characteristics, behaviour and roles generally associated with...
Everyone gets nervous or anxious at times and we often hear such phrases like “my anxiety is taking me to another level of weirdness I guess” or “I think my...
Suicide doesn’t take away the pain, it gives it to someone else
Mental illness has led people to commit actions that would make one’s senses to shatter, it would make our hearts bleed. In recent times, the growing epidemic of suicide rates...
Being a third world country with a literacy rate of only 58%, topics like mental health seldom get discussed or acknowledged in Pakistan. With its population facing problems like hunger,...