Challenges in Malaysia’s Mental Health Industry
I am a Psychology graduate who has been working in a private Psychiatric clinic for four months now, and though my working period could ...
Mental Health
Seeing the World Differently: Autism (by Dr. Alvin Ng)
Autism, to typically developing people, is essentially a deficit in social understanding and skills, coupled with rigidity in interests and behaviour, that ranges ...
Career
PSYCHIATRY VS. PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHIATRY VS. PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? Most psychology programs will have been rushing to get the point across that psychiatry simply is not ...
Education
Why Positive Thinking Can Be HARMFUL?
“You should be more positive, think positive, think happy thoughts!” If I had a dollar every time someone shoves that phrase at my ...
Career
Multidisciplinary Support in a Psychiatric Department
Days in a Psychiatric Department: Multidisciplinary Support Working with patients suffering from mental challenges (eg: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) is neither an easy task, ...
What is Schizophrenia?
During my days of volunteering in the Psychiatric & Mental Health Department at my hometown, I found that the number of patients diagnosed ...
Career
What are Antipsychotics?
Days in a Psychiatric Department: What are Antipsychotics? “He is suffering from Psychosis”, “She is Psychotic”, “He needs to take Antipsychotics to reduce ...
Education
Analyzing Dreams: What Is A Dream?
A Reflection on a Workshop on Dreams “In my dream, I found myself flying up above the field. I looked behind me and ...
Education
Happiness & “The Conquest of Happiness”
Introduction Happiness is fickle. Gone in an instant. However long we think it may last, it just doesn’t (see hedonic treadmill). Hence the ...
