One significant focus in the sight-line of most medical and mental health practitioners is sleep. Though always deemed important, it’s true impact on short and long-term wellbeing is has been reinforced by medical research. One such study has outlined not only the short and medium-term effects...
While often taken for granted, small acts of kindness can have a positive impact on the wellbeing of yourself and others, and can ripple out to the wider community. Kindness is the act of being considerate, helpful or generous to others. For both the giver and...
If you are reading this, it is likely that you, or someone you know, is caring for a person with a disability. Whilst unconditional love and support are at the foundations of a caring relationship, it can also take a toll on the carer’s sense...
Struggling with substances can be an incredibly draining and frustrating experience. The urges that often accompany the cessation of using a substance can be some of the toughest feelings you may deal with in your life. Following the decision to stop using a substance, you may...
By Olivia Nash-Dolby. Content warning: This blog post includes information about eating disorders. Please read with care. Eating disorders are medical and mental illnesses characterised by disturbances in thoughts, behaviours and attitudes around food and eating. It’s estimated that 1 million Australians are living with an eating...
By Sabrina Brient. Chronic pain is pain that is ongoing and lasts longer than expected after an injury, often three to six months. It is excruciating, intense and persistent. And often so are the emotions and impacts associated with chronic pain. It not only affects physical...
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 Ishma Alvi. All literature; from peer-reviewed journal articles to Op-Eds in women’s magazines, repeat the same thing: women are more likely to struggle with anxiety, mood, body image issues, disordered eating and a host of other mental health issues, relative to men. This is supported...
By Olivia Nash-Dolby. For many of us, the typical lockdown schedule can feel a bit like Groundhog Day: wake up, put on a pair of tracksuit pants and a business shirt, shake off-screen fatigue to prepare for a day of Zoom meetings, check the COVID-19 case...
By Ishma Alvi. The acronym ‘OCD’ has become commonplace enough that people, often casually, refer to themselves as having it. People attribute any desire for order or control within themselves or others to having traits of ‘OCD’. But, despite its common use, or perhaps because of...