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An Invitation For High Tea To Celebrate Women’s Mental Health.
The Picnic Perquisites Mental Health Support Program for Women Launch will be held on the 1st of May 2022 in Harare, Zimbabwe. It will be a Hyflex event hence those who cannot attend physically can attend virtually. Don’t forget to “diarise” that. The below concept will outline what the Picnic Perquisites Program is about. ASAC…
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Suddenly Bipolar? What Causes Bipolar Disorders?
Bipolar disorders are mental health conditions characterized by periodic, intense emotional states affecting a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function. These periods, lasting from days to weeks, are called mood episodes. Mood episodes are categorized as manic/hypomanic episodes when the predominant mood is intensely happy or irritable, or depressive episodes, when there is an…
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Join Our Online & Onsite Workshops for Quality Rights Zimbabwe: Acting, Uniting and Empowering Minds to Create Change
Are you passionate about promoting mental health and advocating for quality rights in Zimbabwe? Look no further! We are excited to invite you to our upcoming online and onsite workshops which will run daily (except for Sundays). This will be from September through to the 9th of October 2023. After the 10th the workshops will…
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Picnic Perquisites Mental Health Support Program for Women Launch
An invitation for High Tea to celebrate Women’s Mental Health. The Concept of the Picnic Perquisites Mental Health Support Program for Women by ASAC (Anxiety Support and Awareness Centre) will be presented to all stakeholders and beneficiaries on the 29th of May 2022. The event which was postponed from the 1st of May 2022 at…
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Bipolar Disorder Type
In the previous posts I mentioned that bipolar disorder always has two extreme pole, hypomania and mania though is consists of four sates, namely: highs, lows, mixed states and rapid cycling. However there are three types of bipolar disorders which are bipolar I, bipolar II and cyclothymic disorder. Bipolar Types Bipolar I Disorder is diagnosed…
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Bipolar Awareness
Most people have probably come across the word bipolar but were not quite sure what it is. Well bipolar disorder is a disorder that involves episodes of mood swings that vary from depressive lows (hypomania) to manic highs (mania). There are always two extreme poles of the disorder as shown in the diagram below, though…
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Helping children cope with stress during the 2019-nCoV outbreak
Most countries are under some sort of lock down or physical distancing guidelines. During these times our children are very vulnerable. As such WHO has published an infographic guideline to help us and our children cope. You can download it from the WHO page or here as a PDF to share. WHO Helping children cope…
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How are we dealing mentally with the COVID-19 pandemic?
With lock downs across the world looking after both our physical and mental health is very important. If you are able to work from home there are few things to be cognisant of. Take breaks, have something to drink, take a walk inside or outside, listen to some music. Your brain uses 20% of all…
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Welcome to ASAC
Zimbabwe is a developing country situated in the south central part of Africa with an estimated population of 14 million and an estimated 1.3 million Zimbabweans suffer from some form of mental disorder. Statistics shows that there are 91 390 mentally ill patients with 7 763 new mentally ill patients being recorded in 2014 alone.According…
