In our final entry to cap off Mental Health Awareness Month, Masithethe Counselling Services director Jackie Orsmond gives insight into depression. The first thing one needs to know is that there is a big difference between feeling sad…
Last week, the GO! & Express discussed the issue of burnout in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month. For this week’s instalment, we will be looking at panic attacks, what they are and how to handle them. According to SA Depression…
July is Mental Health Awareness Month and in recognition, the GO! & Express will publish a series of three articles examining three common mental health problems that South Africans face. For this week, we will be discussing burnout. The…
SA joined the UK in scoring the lowest in a study examining the mental well-being of over 49,000 people in eight English-speaking countries. The study, released by Sapien Labs as part of the Mental Health Million Project, made use of an…
LIAM PARRISH October is Mental Health Awareness month and everyone’s mental health has been affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic. Why is it so important to spread awareness about mental health issues? Well the answer is simple, Mental…
Before we move on to the main topic of this column, I just want to take the opportunity to thank the staff of Life Beacon Bay Hospital. I was admitted on Thursday morning for a nasty case of appendicitis and had to be rushed to surgery…
Targeted interventions can limit the number of children being killed, as well as their fall into gangsterism. So says Dr Chris Jones from the unit for moral leadership in the faculty of theology at Stellenbosch University. Reviewing crime…
Seven hundred mental patients in the Eastern Cape are at risk‚ with the Life Esidimeni facility in Kirkwood facing closure after its contract was only extended to December. The decision not to renew the contract flies in the face of…
Three of the seven state mental health facilities housing 1280 patients in the Eastern Cape do not have permanent psychiatrists. Eastern Cape health MEC Helen Sauls-August provided details about psychiatrists in a written reply to…
