BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Christian parties in Lebanon raised objections on Wednesday against Hezbollah-backed presidential candidate Sleiman Frangieh. “We don’t accept blackmailing or threats,” Samy Gemayel, leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party, told a press conference in the capital Beirut. He said their opposition to Frangieh’s candidacy aims t...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A total of 585 students in Bangladesh committed suicide in 2022, according to a report that has been recently released in Dhaka. Of them, 340 and 106 were school and college students, respectively, 85 were university students and 54 were from madrassahs or Islamic seminaries. The statistics were revealed by the [...
Maizbhandar, Bangladesh (AFP): Many families in Bangladesh come to seek blessings from an elderly Bangladeshi mystic, considering themselves affected by “evil spirits” and “black magic.” Syed Emdadul Hoque conducts exorcisms but at the same time is helping to shatter taboos around mental health treatment in the South As...
GENEVA (AA) – The global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with young people the worst hit, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. A WHO report highlights those most affected by the pandemic and found that people with more severe mental […]
Schools in Indian-administered Kashmir reopened Wednesday after 31 months. Health professionals say mental health issues among children spiked during this period. Schools were first closed down due to the security situation arising from India’s revocation of Kashmir’s limited autonomy in August 2019. They remained closed later due to the restr...
GENEVA (AA) – The prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by 25% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has reported. A WHO report highlights those most affected by the pandemic and found that people with more severe mental disorders, such as psychoses, and young people with mental disorders, were particularly at [&he...
GENEVA (AA) – The prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO said on Wednesday. A WHO report highlights those most affected by the pandemic and found that people with more severe mental disorders, such as psychoses, and young people with mental disorders, were […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The shrinking job opportunities due to a widening mismatch between market demand and academic skills in Bangladesh is driving university students to suicide. Shovon (not his real name), who recently graduated from the Department of Philosophy, University of Dhaka, shared his story of depression with Anadolu Agency that...
Malik Faisal Akram, the man who caused a dramatic 10-hour standoff Saturday at a Texas synagogue last weekend, had mental health issues, according to his brother. The 44-year-old British national held four people captive at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. Akram wanted Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to be brought to...
In August 2021, Afghan taxi driver Hamid Safi found a two-month old boy alone in Kabul airport, amid the chaos of the US troop withdrawal. He and his wife took the baby in and cared for him, as a social media campaign to find the family was under way. Now, seven-month-old Sohail Ahmadi has been […]
