May is Schizophrenia Awareness month, which is a good time to be reminded what schizophrenia is (and more importantly!) what it is not. Over decades, inaccurate news reporting and film and literature stereotyping have given the general community a distorted understanding of schizophrenia, a disorder...
Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated to honour and appreciate mothers and motherhood. It is typically observed on the second Sunday in May in more than 40 countries around the world. Mother's Day is a day to show gratitude and appreciation for all that...
Emotional Labour is not a new term. Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist, first introduced the term in 1983 in his book The Managed Heart. It refers to labour undertaken in workplaces and domestic life involving the management of emotional expression. Hochschild argued emotional labour had a...
This year, in keeping with the heart-shaped theme of the month, we thought we’d look at a vital heart-shape; the heart and its health. Our minds and bodies are inextricably linked. They are two parts of one entity that work together to keep us healthy...
A strong social support system is important in helping us through stressful times – whether that stress is a bad day at work or a year impacted by a global pandemic. We’ve all likely heard the term ‘social support system’ and know that it is a...
We all know that feeling of being nervous or uncomfortable in social settings. You might have noticed your palms getting sweaty when you meet someone new, or having ‘brain freeze’ when giving a presentation at work. Public speaking, walking into a room full of strangers...
By Kelsie Bufton One of the most difficult things in the interactions we have with others is knowing how to get want we want, whilst maintaining strong and healthy relationships. When we don’t have the right skills, it can be so easy for conversations to get...
By Ishma Alvi. To state that a pandemic has had life-altering effects is no over-statement, simply an acknowledgement of fact. To state that some of those alterations have been uncomfortable at best and devastating at worst is also a statement of fact. COVID-19 and everything that...
Dr Ceylan Celen is one of our psychologists here at Vida Psychology. In this podcast, she shares how DBT, a type of cognitive behavioural therapy, is helping her patients manage PMDD. There are many strategies shared in this episode and we speak about one of the...
By Sabrina Brient. Language helps us to communicate and connect and to construct and express our identities. Language lets us create labels that we can share with others and build communities. As culture grows and changes, so too do the language and labels that we use. It...