Category: Mental Health

So, is sport an addiction or not?

My apologies, I do not think I have formed a definite opinion. My view so far is that sport can lead a person to significant impairments in social life. I cannot discredit the … Read more

Professional Sports Athletes

I suppose some of you reading this blog are asking, “what if the athlete is a professional?” I, too, feel that this argument cannot be complete if this consideration is absent. The participation of the athlete here … Read more

Can Sports Be too much?

I should make something clear. I do not think that sport can be compared to addictions that involve substances. The substances per se have a medicinal affect in the person which creates a new dimension … Read more

Recently I have been asked to consider the idea that sports might become an addiction. This notion is not new in this field. There are debates in the field of addiction which seem to identify similarities with other forms of … Read more

The high familiarity with psychological terms, such as ‘depressed’, ‘paranoid’ and ‘OCD’ has brought a normalization of the words.  Although used more frequently, they are not always used accurately, thus bringing about several misconceptions.

When it comes to the … Read more

As promised, in my previous blog we will now look into other modes of grief.  Literature indicates, that with the increase of terminal illness diagnosis, the grief process took a different progression as it can start long before one loses … Read more

As I stated in the previous blog we will now deal with the topic of grief in more detail. What is important to understand is that there is no one “correct” way of dealing with grief, since human beings have … Read more

Today, I will write about a topic that is close to my heart; that is how we deal with grief.

A famous psychiatrist known by the name of Elizabeth-Kubler Ross dedicated her life studying and researching this topic.  Through … Read more

‘’I washed my hands several times but I need to make sure they are clean. I need to wash my hands again.’’

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder made up of obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions … Read more