TNS Diary

    • Mental Health in the Workplace: Strategies for Creating a Healthy Work Environment

      Mental Health in the Workplace: Strategies for Creating a Healthy Work Environment

      Featured Image Courtesy: Promises Healthcare In today’s fast-paced and demanding work environments, mental health in the workplace has become a critical issue that employers and employees alike need to address. A healthy work environment that prioritizes mental well-being not only benefits individual employees but also contributes to increased productivity, job satisfaction, and overall organizational success.…

    • 11 Effective Ways to Manage Stress: Take Control of Your Well-being

      11 Effective Ways to Manage Stress: Take Control of Your Well-being

      From the previous article, we came to terms with the fact that stress is an inevitable part of life, and comes with a whole lot of negative impacts and complications. There is therefore the need to learn how to manage it, as this is essential for maintaining our overall well-being. It is worth noting that,…

    • 9 Negative Impacts of Stress on the Body: Understanding the Toll on Your Well-being.

      9 Negative Impacts of Stress on the Body: Understanding the Toll on Your Well-being.

      Stress has become an increasingly prevalent aspect of modern life, and its impact on our physical health should not be underestimated. Chronic stress can wreak havoc on our bodies, leading to a variety of negative consequences. In this blog post, we will explore nine common ways in which stress can negatively affect our overall well-being.…

    • The Untold Tales Episode 14

      The Untold Tales Episode 14

      Dear The Nursing Student Diary, kindly share this tale since I believe it might be of help to someone out there. I’m a midwife, completed my one year mandatory service a few months ago and this tale is of a friend of mine and her partner. This friend of mine and her boyfriend have dated…

    • Categories of Psychiatric or Mental Disorders

      Categories of Psychiatric or Mental Disorders

      There are two (2) major groups of mental illness; Neurosis/Psychoneurosis and Psychosis. NEUROSES/PSYCHONEUROSISM Neurosis is a general term referring to a reactive behavior to environmental stressors such as financial problems, separation, loss of property, failure to achieve set goals, and loss of job characterized by minimal symptoms that reduce efficiency in the day-to-day activities of…

    • Overview of Psychiatric or Mental Disorders (Mental Illness)

      Overview of Psychiatric or Mental Disorders (Mental Illness)

      A Psychiatric disorder or Mental disorder, popularly mental illness is defined as Maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the individual’s social, occupational, and/ or physical functioning (Townsend, 2003). The American Psychiatric Association on the other hand defines it as an illness…

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