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Mental Health Guides

Written by Jeena S. Girilal, Psychologist — for people seeking understanding, and the professionals who help them.

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Understanding Anxiety: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Treat It

Anxiety

A complete guide to anxiety — for individuals navigating it and psychologists treating it. Types, causes, evidence-based treatment, and clinical asses…

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Understanding Depression: More Than Just Sadness

Depression

A complete guide to depression — for individuals navigating it and psychologists treating it. Symptoms, evidence-based treatment, and clinical assessm…

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Understanding Stress and Burnout: What They Do to You, and What Actually Helps

Work Stress

A complete guide to stress and burnout — for individuals managing daily stress and psychologists distinguishing stress from clinical burnout in practi…

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Work Stress and Burnout: India's Quiet Workplace Crisis

Work Stress

A complete guide to workplace stress in India — the current data, individual recovery strategies, and organisational-level intervention frameworks for…

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Understanding OCD: Beyond "Being a Little OCD"

OCD

A complete guide to OCD — for individuals living with it and psychologists treating it. Symptoms, ERP treatment, and clinical assessment for Indian pr…

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Understanding PTSD: When the Past Won't Stay in the Past

PTSD / Trauma

A complete guide to PTSD — for individuals living with trauma responses and psychologists treating them. Symptoms, evidence-based treatment, and asses…

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Understanding Trauma: How It Shapes Us, and How We Heal

PTSD / Trauma

A complete guide to trauma — for individuals healing from it and psychologists treating it. Types of trauma, effects, evidence-based treatment, and tr…

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Understanding Grief and Loss: There Is No Right Way to Grieve

Grief & Loss

A complete guide to grief — for anyone navigating loss and psychologists providing grief counselling. Stages, complicated grief, evidence-based treatm…

Understanding ADHD: Beyond "He Just Can't Sit Still"

ADHD

A complete guide to ADHD in children and adults — for families navigating a diagnosis and psychologists conducting assessment in the Indian context.…

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Understanding Your Child's Emotional World: A Guide for Parents and Practitioners

Child Psychology

A complete guide to child psychology for parents and practitioners — developmental milestones, common concerns, assessment approach, and treatment fra…

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Understanding Eating Disorders: A Mental Health Condition, Not a Lifestyle Choice

Eating Disorders

A complete guide to eating disorders — for individuals and families recognising warning signs, and psychologists conducting screening and referral in …

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Understanding Couples Therapy: What It Actually Involves

Couples Therapy

A complete guide to couples therapy — for couples considering it and psychologists structuring their practice around it. Evidence-based models and ses…

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Understanding Relationships: What the Research Actually Says

Relationships

A complete guide to relationship psychology — for anyone building healthier connections and psychologists working with attachment and relational patte…

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Understanding LGBTQ-Affirming Therapy: Why the Approach Matters

LGBTQ+ Affirming

A complete guide to LGBTQ-affirming therapy — for clients seeking safe care and psychologists building affirmative practice competency in the Indian c…