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While sexual health is commonly not prioritised, it is commonly affected by both physical and mental health. When was your last check-up? Why do you need to undergo routine physical examinations? We have all the answers. Take a look at the content that is created by our experts specially for you.

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Eating Disorders: The Signs, the Myths, and What Actually Helps
Eating
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

Eating Disorders: The Signs, the Myths, and What Actually Helps

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not vanity, willpower, or a phase. They are about control and distress far more than about food. You ca...
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PMDD: When Premenstrual Symptoms Are Something More
Mood
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

PMDD: When Premenstrual Symptoms Are Something More

PMDD stands for premenstrual dysphoric disorder. It's a mood disorder tied to the menstrual cycle, not a bad case of PMS. Symptoms build in the days b...
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Phobias: What They Are and How They Are Treated
Anxiety
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

Phobias: What They Are and How They Are Treated

A phobia is an intense, lasting fear of a specific thing or situation, out of proportion to the actual danger, that you go out of your way to avoid. W...
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Health Anxiety and Hypochondria: Symptoms, Signs and Treatment
Anxiety
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

Health Anxiety and Hypochondria: Symptoms, Signs and Treatment

Health anxiety is persistent, distressing worry about having or developing a serious illness, strong enough to shape your days. The sensations you not...
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How to Deal With a Breakup
Grief and Loss
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

How to Deal With a Breakup

A breakup can hurt in a way that catches you off guard, sometimes in your chest, your sleep, or your appetite. That's a real response, not an overreac...
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Personality Disorders Explained: Causes, Types, and Treatment
Personality
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

Personality Disorders Explained: Causes, Types, and Treatment

A personality disorder is a long-standing pattern in how someone thinks, feels, and relates to other people. It causes real distress or gets in the wa...
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Sleep Hygiene: A Practical Guide to Better Sleep
Sleep
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 12 Oct, 2026

Sleep Hygiene: A Practical Guide to Better Sleep

Sleep hygiene means the everyday habits and surroundings that help you sleep well. The basics matter most: a fairly regular sleep and wake time, a dar...
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OCD: What It Really Means, and the Treatment That Helps
Obsessive Compulsive
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 9 Oct, 2026

OCD: What It Really Means, and the Treatment That Helps

OCD is a mental health condition where unwanted thoughts (obsessions) drive repeated actions or mental rituals (compulsions) done for temporary relief...
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PTSD and Trauma: What They Are, and What Actually Helps
Trauma and Dissociation
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 9 Oct, 2026

PTSD and Trauma: What They Are, and What Actually Helps

Trauma is what a frightening or overwhelming event leaves behind in you, not the event itself. Most people who go through something traumatic do not d...
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Depression: Symptoms, Causes, Types, and Treatment
Mood
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 9 Oct, 2026

Depression: Symptoms, Causes, Types, and Treatment

Depression is a common and treatable medical condition, not a weakness or something you can simply snap out of. It is more than ordinary sadness: a pe...
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Signs, Causes, and Treatment
Anxiety
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 9 Oct, 2026

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Signs, Causes, and Treatment

Everyone worries. Generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, is when worry becomes excessive, hard to switch off, and starts to interfere with daily life. ...
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How to Support a Loved One Through a Mental Health Condition
Getting Help
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 9 Oct, 2026

How to Support a Loved One Through a Mental Health Condition

When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, you do not need to be an expert or have all the answers. What helps most is showing up, ...
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Psychiatric Medications: Types, Side Effects, Benefits and How They Work
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 9 Oct, 2026

Psychiatric Medications: Types, Side Effects, Benefits and How They Work

Psychiatric medications are prescription medicines that help treat mental health conditions, usually by gently adjusting the brain chemistry involved ...
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Psychiatrist vs Psychologist vs Therapist: Who Should You See?
Getting Help
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 7 Oct, 2026

Psychiatrist vs Psychologist vs Therapist: Who Should You See?

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who can diagnose mental health conditions and prescribe medicine. A clinical psychologist assesses and treats throu...
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Mood Stabilisers: What They Do, the Blood Tests and How Long You Take Them
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 7 Oct, 2026

Mood Stabilisers: What They Do, the Blood Tests and How Long You Take Them

Mood stabilisers are prescription medicines used mainly to treat bipolar disorder and prevent future episodes of mania or depression. Lithium is a com...
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Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques for Anxiety: A Practical Guide
Wellbeing
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 6 Oct, 2026

Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques for Anxiety: A Practical Guide

Mindfulness, meditation and relaxation techniques are different things that overlap. The ones with the best evidence behind them are simple: slow brea...
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Exercise and Mental Health: Benefits and How to Start
Wellbeing
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 6 Oct, 2026

Exercise and Mental Health: Benefits and How to Start

Regular exercise is linked to real, measurable improvements in depression and anxiety, not just a vague sense of feeling better. Walking or jogging sh...
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Anger Management: How to Understand and Control Anger
Wellbeing
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 6 Oct, 2026

Anger Management: How to Understand and Control Anger

Anger itself isn't the problem, how you respond to it is. Create space before you react: step away for a few minutes, breathe slowly, or wait before y...
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Assertiveness: How to Say No and Set Boundaries
Wellbeing
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 6 Oct, 2026

Assertiveness: How to Say No and Set Boundaries

Assertiveness means saying what you need clearly without insulting or controlling the other person. It does not guarantee that they will agree. It hel...
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Sexual Side Effects of Psychiatric Medicines: What Can Help
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 6 Oct, 2026

Sexual Side Effects of Psychiatric Medicines: What Can Help

Many psychiatric medicines can affect your sex life, most often antidepressants and some antipsychotics. The usual changes are lower desire, trouble w...
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Sleeping Pills: What They Do, Why They Are Short-Term and How to Stop Safely
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 5 Oct, 2026

Sleeping Pills: What They Do, Why They Are Short-Term and How to Stop Safely

Sleeping pills can help you sleep for a short stretch, but they do not treat what is keeping you awake. Guidelines in India and abroad put a talking t...
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Alcohol and Substance Use: When It Becomes a Problem, and What Helps
Addiction
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 5 Oct, 2026

Alcohol and Substance Use: When It Becomes a Problem, and What Helps

Substance use becomes a disorder when it stops being a choice and starts running your life. It is a health condition, not a character flaw, and it re...
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Alcohol Use Disorder: Signs, Treatment and How to Stop Drinking
Addiction
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 5 Oct, 2026

Alcohol Use Disorder: Signs, Treatment and How to Stop Drinking

Alcohol use disorder is a health condition, not a character flaw, and it responds well to treatment. The signs that matter are about control rather th...
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ADHD in Adults: How It Actually Looks, and How It Is Diagnosed
ADHD
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 3 Oct, 2026

ADHD in Adults: How It Actually Looks, and How It Is Diagnosed

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition that starts in childhood and often continues into adult life. In adults it usually looks less like restlessness...
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Agoraphobia: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
Anxiety
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 3 Oct, 2026

Agoraphobia: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Agoraphobia is the fear and avoidance of situations where getting away or getting help would be hard, not just a fear of open spaces. It usually build...
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Mental Health: Symptoms, Conditions, Treatment and Support
Wellbeing
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 28 Sep, 2026

Mental Health: Symptoms, Conditions, Treatment and Support

Mental health affects how you think, feel, sleep, work, manage relationships and cope with everyday life. You do not need to know the exact name of wh...
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Antipsychotics: What They Treat, Side Effects and How Long You Take Them
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 26 Sep, 2026

Antipsychotics: What They Treat, Side Effects and How Long You Take Them

Antipsychotics are prescription medicines used for psychosis, schizophrenia, mania in bipolar disorder and some other conditions. Some symptoms may im...
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Anti-Anxiety Medication: The Two Types, the Time Limit and How to Stop
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 26 Sep, 2026

Anti-Anxiety Medication: The Two Types, the Time Limit and How to Stop

Medicines used for anxiety do different jobs. Benzodiazepines, such as clonazepam and alprazolam, can provide quick relief but are generally used for ...
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ADHD Medication for Adults: Types, Side Effects and Safety
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 25 Sep, 2026

ADHD Medication for Adults: Types, Side Effects and Safety

ADHD medicine is the most studied treatment for adult ADHD, and for many people it clearly reduces symptoms. It works best alongside practical changes...
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Dementia Medication: What It Can Do, the Main Types and What to Ask
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 24 Sep, 2026

Dementia Medication: What It Can Do, the Main Types and What to Ask

No medicine cures dementia or stops it. Some medicines can ease memory and thinking problems for a while in some people, mainly in Alzheimer's disease...
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Addiction Medications: What They Treat and How to Use Them Safely
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 24 Sep, 2026

Addiction Medications: What They Treat and How to Use Them Safely

Medicines can help people recover from alcohol, opioid and tobacco addiction. They ease withdrawal, reduce cravings, make a return to heavy use less l...
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Antidepressants: How They Work, Side Effects and Stopping Safely
Medications
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 18 Sep, 2026

Antidepressants: How They Work, Side Effects and Stopping Safely

Antidepressants are prescription medicines used for depression and for several anxiety conditions. They usually take four to six weeks to show a clear...
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Cannabis (Ganja) side Effects and When Use Becomes Dependence
Addiction
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 11 Sep, 2026

Cannabis (Ganja) side Effects and When Use Becomes Dependence

Cannabis can cause dependence. Around 20% to 30% of people who use it regularly develop a problem with it. Stopping brings a real withdrawal that peak...
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How to Quit Smoking or Tobacco: A Practical Guide for India
Addiction
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 10 Sep, 2026

How to Quit Smoking or Tobacco: A Practical Guide for India

Quitting smoking is hard because nicotine changes your brain chemistry, not because you lack willpower. Withdrawal is uncomfortable, usually peaking i...
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
Personality
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 10 Sep, 2026

Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Borderline personality disorder involves emotions that feel more intense and shift faster than most people experience, a deep fear of being abandoned,...
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Hearing Voices: What It Means and When to Get Help
Psychosis
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 8 Sep, 2026

Hearing Voices: What It Means and When to Get Help

Hearing voices means hearing speech or sounds that other people can’t hear. It can happen because of severe stress, poor sleep, grief, fever, medicine...
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Social Anxiety Disorder: What It Is and What Helps
Anxiety
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 4 Sep, 2026

Social Anxiety Disorder: What It Is and What Helps

Social anxiety disorder is an intense, lasting fear of being judged or watched by other people, strong enough to change what you do. It usually starts...
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Panic Attack or Heart Attack? Symptoms, Causes and When to Worry
Anxiety
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 2 Sep, 2026

Panic Attack or Heart Attack? Symptoms, Causes and When to Worry

A panic attack is a sudden surge of intense fear with strong physical symptoms, and it peaks within minutes. It feels dangerous and it is not. But if ...
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Dementia and Alzheimer's: Early Signs and What Helps
Dementia and Memory
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 1 Sep, 2026

Dementia and Alzheimer's: Early Signs and What Helps

Dementia isn't one disease. It's a group of symptoms caused by several different diseases, and Alzheimer's disease is the most common of them. It isn...
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Postpartum Depression: Symptoms, Treatment and Help in India
Mood
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 30 Aug, 2026

Postpartum Depression: Symptoms, Treatment and Help in India

Feeling low, anxious or numb after having a baby is common, and it isn't a sign of being a bad mother. A brief low mood in the first days usually pass...
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Porn Addiction: What It Is, and When It Becomes a Problem
Addiction
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 30 Aug, 2026

Porn Addiction: What It Is, and When It Becomes a Problem

Porn addiction is the everyday name for a pattern that doctors call compulsive sexual behaviour disorder. The line isn't how often you watch or whethe...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: What It Really Is, Beyond the Films
Trauma and Dissociation
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 23 Aug, 2026

Dissociative Identity Disorder: What It Really Is, Beyond the Films

Dissociative identity disorder is a condition where a person's sense of identity is split into two or more states, with gaps in memory between them. I...
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Psychosis and Schizophrenia: What They Are, and What Recovery Looks Like
Psychosis
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 19 Aug, 2026

Psychosis and Schizophrenia: What They Are, and What Recovery Looks Like

Psychosis is a temporary loss of contact with reality. Schizophrenia is one condition that can cause psychosis, but it is not the only one. Schizophre...
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Bipolar Disorder: The Highs, the Lows, and What Treatment Looks Like
Mood
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 19 Aug, 2026

Bipolar Disorder: The Highs, the Lows, and What Treatment Looks Like

Bipolar disorder is not the same as being moody. It brings episodes of unusually high mood and energy, and episodes of depression, each lasting days o...
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Grief and Bereavement: Understanding Loss
Grief and Loss
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 13 Aug, 2026

Grief and Bereavement: Understanding Loss

Grief is the natural response to losing someone or something important to you. It is not an illness, and there is no single right way or set time to g...
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Crisis Support and Helplines: Getting Help Right Now
Getting Help
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 13 Aug, 2026

Crisis Support and Helplines: Getting Help Right Now

If you are in crisis or thinking about suicide right now, you can call Tele-MANAS on 14416, free and any time of day or night, in many Indian language...
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Insomnia and Sleep Disorders: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Sleep
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 11 Aug, 2026

Insomnia and Sleep Disorders: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

Insomnia means ongoing difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking far too early, even when you have the time and space to sleep. It affects ...
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Stress and Burnout: How to Cope and When to Ask for Help
Wellbeing
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 11 Aug, 2026

Stress and Burnout: How to Cope and When to Ask for Help

Stress is your body's normal response to pressure. Burnout is what can happen when that pressure goes on for a long time without a real break, leaving...
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What to Expect in Therapy: Your First Counselling Session and Beyond
Getting Help
Dr. Srishti Rastogi • 11 Aug, 2026

What to Expect in Therapy: Your First Counselling Session and Beyond

A counselling session is a private conversation with a trained mental health professional who is there to listen and help, not to judge. Your first s...
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Sensate Focus Stages
Sex Therapy
Anoush Gomes • 30 Jul, 2026

Sensate Focus Stages

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What Is Sensate Focus
Sex Therapy
Anoush Gomes • 30 Jul, 2026

What Is Sensate Focus

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When Does A Couple Need Sex Therapy?
Sex Therapy
Anoush Gomes • 30 Jul, 2026

When Does A Couple Need Sex Therapy?

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What Is Sex Therapy? Understanding the Benefits
Sex Therapy
Anoush Gomes • 10 Apr, 2023

What Is Sex Therapy? Understanding the Benefits

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