The Dr. Guislain Award ‘Breaking the Chains of Stigma’ is an initiative of Museum Dr. Guislain and Janssen Research & Development, LLC, uniting two institutes that have a longstanding involvement...
Taskeen and coalition partners unveiled the official website www.covidmh.pk (Taskeen Media Desk) The COVID-19 crisis threatens to lead to a mental health pandemic, due to the tremendous distress caused by...
Reasons why you should never be ashamed of seeking help
You are not crazy, Nor deranged, Neither ungrateful or the one to blame. You are not the culprit, but instead the victim; Of a chemical imbalance in your brain. Which...
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....
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...
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,...
What is self- stigma? Self- stigma is when you think that you are not good enough which is the outcome of the belief that these vulnerabilities that stem out of...