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Mental Health 101: How to End School Anxiety

  One way or another, most of us spend a good deal of our lives at school, dealing with it in multiple dimensions. It impacts our relationships with our friends and families, not to mention our-very-selves. If not properly addressed, the fear of failure that often manifests itself around exam periods might turn into a constant state of anxiety and continue to haunt us day and night even beyond formal education years.  Knowing how to overcome it, therefore, has an enormous potential to improve how much we make out of our most valued treasure in this life -- our time. I suggest you spare the next couple of minutes and read on to start the change today. Prioritize Education and Learning, Not The School Itself Answer me one thing first: Why do you go to school? As small kids, we started doing so because our families or caretakers wanted us to. And because everyone did the same, we never questioned, at least not initially, why we became a student all of a sudden. Those were the years when w

Five Ways to Escape Lockdown Depression

After more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, it is still not clear when we could go back to the normal as we know it. Mentally, most of us have already had the worst episode of our lives but there is no guarantee that our hard-fought struggle will be over soon.  The chances are there will always be some level of unnerving measures everywhere we go outside our homes in the foreseeable future, even though, at the best, we do not wake up to the news of thousands of more deaths every day anymore.  So, it is time we adopt certain lifestyle changes to make sure we outlive this tiny yet incredibly cunning and dangerous virus as a perfectly healthy human being, both in body and in spirit. Here are five easy-to-follow suggestions: Fight the disease, not the measures Granted, all of us are tired and we do not want to be afraid or constrained any longer. We just want to be our old selves again. The thing is the price we might have to pay for forcing our way into it is too high. Any prematur