Uncertainty, crises, penury, feeling powerless, speed of life, stress, alienation from human contact in the era of social networks, flood of contradictory information... Many people find it difficult to cope with all these challenges by themselves, so they turn to a psychotherapist for help more and more often. Has Serbian society finally come to terms with the importance of mental hygiene?
South Korea is the country with the highest suicide rate. Now some measures are being taken against it. Serbia is also not far from the top of the black list
Conflict is shown instead of dialogue, aggression instead of tenderness. We have evidence for this thesis in all program segments, from reality shows to political debates to dramatization of sports events and weather forecasts. There is a constant trade in attention through the explicit display of violence
It is possible for someone who is persistent enough to get into a position from which he manages people, without anyone having previously checked whether and to what extent he is mentally disturbed, says the head of the "Laza Lazarevic" psychiatric clinic, Igor Radosavljević.
Cyberchondria, i.e. the escalation of health-related anxiety caused by persistent searches and reading content about symptoms and diseases on the Internet, can develop into depression and obsessive-compulsive disorders, psychologist Jelena Vukičević told Vreme.
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, we spoke with young people from Belgrade about how they take care of their mental health and how much help is available to them.
More than twenty years ago, the World Psychiatric Organization announced that the biggest problem is neither disorders nor treatments, but stigmatization. Simply put, the problem is not that someone, for example, is depressed, the problem is that we who live with and around him have not yet evolved enough to be able to continue to see him as a person, despite the current mental disorder. so that we are not afraid of him almost automatically, and that we are able to treat him with humanity and compassion
Prosecutors in 14 US states filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, October 8, due to the harmful impact on mental health and the collection of personal data.
Research shows that one in seven police officers suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Are inspections of police officers in Serbia and the region carried out regularly?
Another state in the US has approved a law banning children under 16 from accessing social networks to protect them from the risks that can affect their mental health. Special pedagogue Anđela Zlatković explains for "Vreme" the expediency of those measures
According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, in Serbia, there are between four and five psychologists per 100.000 inhabitants within the health system. This means that if all the people who are dealing with psychological difficulties for which they should seek help actually turned to a psychologist within the health system, the last of them would wait four years for an appointment
Minister of Health Danica Grujičić told RTS that they found three locations for that hospital and that only the fourth one, in Kneginje Zorka Street, was suitable for employees.
On August 4, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved zuranolone, or Zurzuvae, for the treatment of postpartum depression
"We sent an appeal - the solution is either the renovation of this space or the search for a new one. I'm sure we haven't exhausted all the possibilities for this facility, the hospital has been working here for more than 40 years," said Dejan Djokovic, President of the Club of Treated Alcoholics, for N1
The decision of the Building Inspection Department prohibited the use of the Paunova hospital facility no. 2 in Belgrade, which is part of the Institute for Mental Health
Kristina Kika Đukić, a twenty-one-year-old YouTuber from Belgrade, died on Thursday. Her name meant nothing to many until yesterday, until it was known that she comes from the YouTube scene and that children and teenagers know very well who she is.
