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Ahmed (not his real name) is a 65-year-old man with a long history of mental health problems. He often attends the clinic with his old mother who is in her 80s but insists to attend with him and know...

“Unwanted thoughts are often strange, disturbing thoughts that pop into your mind and bring on feelings of worry or shame”.Last week I was teaching at an outside institution and half way through...

“The concept of having a meaning in life can be applied to all of us in different stages in our lives and can explain how our current social situation may contribute to our emotions and feelings of...

“A recent study reported in the Harvard Business Review reveals that our own restless thoughts, not smartphones, are the main cause of our poor attention”According to recent research the average...

Few days ago I was chatting with a healthcare worker who moved to work in a nearby country where she was made a head of a unit and given more responsibility and appreciation.The move made her realize...

The Netflix documentary ‘The Tinder Sindler’ tells the real story of a young man who used a dating social media application and presented himself as a son of diamond factory owner and tricked...

October 10th marked the World Mental Health Day. A day designated by the World Health Organization to raise awareness about mental health and its importance in our lives.The theme this year is...

A fourteen year-old boy is brought to the psychiatrist clinic by his parents who were very concerned about a recent change in his behaviour.Over the past few weeks the boy refused to go to school and...

Many of us are struggling to maintain a healthy lifestyle by exercising regularly and sticking to a healthy diet, yet this can be challenging sometimes so we find ourselves going back to our bad...

A colleague was telling me about his son who found it difficult to relax during job interviews. He would feel very anxious and start sweating and stuttering and his heart beat goes up.Despite scoring...

My son was called for an interview last week so I had to give him few tips on how to handle the interview.Knowing him, I was rather worried about the interaction with the interviewers than the actual...

The twenty eight-year-old engineer says, “let’s call him Ahmed” who worked very hard from the first days in the company he worked at, he spent extra hours completing his tasks and achieved his...

What do you do when you notice that your parent has become a new person?The calm, loving and caring mother or father is replaced by someone who mixes up your names, accuses you of stealing his key,...

A few weeks ago, a middle-aged woman came to my clinic with her mother, and when she introduced herself, I took a closer look and said, "You were my teacher in my first year in university". We were...

If you have travelled recently, you would have booked your hotel through a website, and most likely, you read the reviews written by previous travellers who stayed there and shared their impressions....

A seventy-old woman was recently brought to my clinic by her son who was concerned about her memory. Although being of Omani origin, she has been living in Zanzibar all her life even after her...

A young woman in her mid-thirties came to my clinic for a consultation. She is a mother, a wife, and a successful manager at a private company.She described a feeling that prevents her from enjoying...

Few weeks ago I received a text message through Instagram from an anonymous person saying that I have upset his mother who came to the clinic and I said she had a mental illness ‘just like the...

According to the English dictionary, a perfectionist is a person who ‘wants everything to be perfect and demands the highest standards possible.’ While most people associate perfectionists with...

As humans we all need to feel loved and appreciated by others, like our parents, friends and partners. Such relationships may be far from perfect so it’s normal to argue from time to time but you...