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Painful Periods Are Normal: Fact Check
Experiencing discomfort during periods is not unusual. It is important to understand and recognise the difference between discomfort and extreme pain. If one has to use a heat pack occasionally and take a couple of paracetamols and manage the day-to-day activities with negligible impact, that is discomfort. This is expected
Normalisation of Modern Day Pregnancy/Parenting Situations: Advantageous or Dangerous?
‘I never discussed this before because I thought it was normal’ ‘Most women in my family went through this the same way so I thought it’s normal’ ‘Everyone is tired and busy, I thought nothing much of mine too.’ ‘I didn’t want anyone to worry so I didn’t think it
5 Things I Shared With My Patients That They Found Helpful
One The capacity to make mindful choices for our sleep, nutrition, exercise and movement, work-life balance, resilient relationship building and maintenance every single day is neither realistic nor natural, especially in this modern era. Pick one category and start with a simple, extremely easy and doable habit that you commit
Perinatal Depression (A Poem)
You see her eyes laced with exhaustionHer chest clutched onto a torn tapestryThe mouth she feeds bleeds in her armsDisappearing sand through her fingertips Their touch burns fissures in her fleshWith muted eyes and a deaf screamWho is she?Shhhhhh, the footsteps are fadingWho is she, again? She buries her feet
Suffering To Healing: Connecting Via Stories
Bustan (2015) Psychophysics […] suffering [involves] long-term implications of pain associated with threat, loss, potential damage, and impending harm for the self [and is] the combined display of several distinctive negative emotions. Cassell (1982) Medical ethics […] suffering can be defined as the state of severe distress associated with events
Exploring The Reasons Why Some Women Reject Breast Cancer Screening
Breast cancer awareness month is October. I decided to take this opportunity to discuss the factors why some women do not get their mammograms done and subsequently present with cancerous lumps at a much later stage of the disease. I have found them and their family members to share guilt
Urinary Symptoms In Women Are Not Always A Bladder Infection
Women are far more susceptible to urinary symptoms than men. We do not usually have clear information available to the public that helps them to identify the differences between some of these conditions which are often lumped under the possibility of a UTI (urinary tract infection). A UTI could be
Understanding Menstrual Cycles And Conditions Affecting Them
On average, 10 in 100 women have heavy menstrual bleeding, which is more than 80ml of blood in the entire menstrual cycle. 80ml equals 1/3rd of a cup or more than 5 tablespoons. Flooding = Leaking through despite using a tampon or pad Clots = Clumps of blood and lining
Looking at Behaviours Through a Trauma-Informed Lens
Emotions and experiences that a child cannot manage in a safe manner tend to get trapped within the child’s body and mind. This trapped experience is either ‘avoided, deflected, projected or suppressed.’ Unfortunately, these ‘fright, flight, freeze, fawn’ responses do cause compensatory behaviours as well. Here is one such example.