This blog explores what it is for a young person to navigate Saudi Arabia’s rapidly changing society, and the experiences that shape their mental well-being. It offers insight into supporting young adults in this process, as parents and mental health professionals.
Setting goals at New Year’s doesn’t have to be a negative experience. By changing the way we set goals and the type of goals we set, New Year’s goal-setting can help us get to where we want to be in our relationships, social skills, and activities.
Family offices are increasingly recognising the role of mental health in wealth management. Mental health impacts a family’s decision-making and continuity, their choice of investments and resilience. These impacts are inseparable from wealth and finances.
Young people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often find Christmas celebrations difficult. BPD is characterised by intense and quickly changing moods, often in response to things that happen in relationships. When these relationships are emphasised and intensified, they may feel overwhelmed and unstable. Experiences that may feel warm and joyful to other people can be painful and lonely for someone with BPD.
Alexithymia is related to both emotional processing and language. People with alexithymia may not recognise emotional expressions on faces as well as other people. They may find it hard to talk about interpersonal relationships or other people’s feelings, and describe their own emotional experiences with simple language without vivid descriptions. They may be less sensitive to the emotional meaning of language and tend towards concretist thinking and avoidance of metaphors.
In this blog, we explain how lasting recovery requires addressing past traumas, interpersonal difficulties, and other underlying experiences that maintain eating disorder symptoms. We outline some of the effective treatment modalities available, and question why so many recovery programs still focus on weight and numbers.
Collaborative treatment helps young people feel heard, understood, and considered as a person, not a ‘patient’. It builds trust between teenagers, mental health professionals, and parents. It encourages young people to stay in treatment and receive treatment again if it’s necessary.
For therapists and psychiatrists, caring for and empathising with others is part of the profession. Therapeutic relationships require work and sensitivity, balancing emotional and social
When teenagers receive a mental health diagnosis, they may experience a mixture of feelings. Some teenagers feel relieved when they are diagnosed with a mental
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