Blog - Evexia Psychiatric Day Hospital

Move it for your Mind: Why Breaking a Sweat is great for your Mental Health

Mark Beckman2023-10-17T18:54:11+02:00Oct 17th, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: mental health, mental wellbeing|

Move it for your Mind: Why Breaking a Sweat is great for your Mental Health July Masango | Occupational Therapist Have you ever wondered [...]

Understanding Bipolar Disorder: The Role of Unresolved Emotional Issues

Mark Beckman2023-03-30T13:04:22+02:00Mar 30th, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: bipolar disorder, depression, emotions, mental health, mental wellbeing|

Understanding Bipolar Disorder: The Role of Unresolved Emotional Issues Winston Schoeman | Clinical Psychologist Bipolar disorder is a complex condition that affects millions of people [...]

Study shows that TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to children as often as every 39 seconds

Mark Beckman2022-12-19T10:20:54+02:00Dec 19th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: abuse, depression, eating disorders, harassment, loneliness, mental health, mental wellbeing, social media, suicide, tiktok|

TikTok pushes harmful content to kids every 39 seconds Marieta Dippenaar | Psychologist Study shows that TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to children as [...]

Back to School Trauma | Bullying

Mark Beckman2022-12-15T11:43:26+02:00Dec 15th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: abuse, anxiety, bullies, bullying, depression, harassment, loneliness, mental health, mental wellbeing, school bully, suicide|

Back to School Trauma | Bullying Marieta Dippenaar | Psychologist For many children, the start of a new school year is filled with a [...]

Happy New Year! Or is it?

Mark Beckman2022-12-15T11:36:01+02:00Dec 14th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: anxiety, depression, loneliness, mental health, mental wellbeing, new year, new years eve, suicide|

Happy New Year! Or is it? Marieta Dippenaar | Psychologist New Year’s Depression is Real. Here’s What You Can Do About It Many people [...]

Helping Loved Ones Cope With the Holidays

Mark Beckman2022-12-14T12:00:53+02:00Dec 14th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: anxiety, christmas, depression, holidays, loneliness, mental health, mental wellbeing, new year|

Is someone you love struggling with their mental health? Here’s how you can help them cope during the stressful festive season. Marieta Dippenaar | Psychologist [...]

Seven Years Sober

Mark Beckman2022-11-24T11:47:28+02:00Nov 24th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: alcohol, alcohol abuse, depression, mental health, mental wellbeing, recovering alcoholic, rehab, substance abuse|

Seven Years Sober By 'P' (Anonymous) - A patient of Dr. Charles Malanga My story of recovery for alcohol abuse began more than 7 [...]

Zoomers and the looming, lagging epidemic of mental health issues

Mark Beckman2022-11-15T13:24:22+02:00Nov 15th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: adolescents, anxiety, children, covid-19, depression, epidemic, gender based violence, generation z, genz, mental health, mental wellbeing, pandemic, teens, zoomers|

Zoomers and the looming, lagging epidemic of mental health issues Post contributed by Laura Pakendorf The alarming gap between the demand and supply of [...]

Why do we deny what we need?

Mark Beckman2022-10-26T13:36:14+02:00Oct 25th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: mental wellbeing|

Why do we deny what we need? Post contributed by Charles Malanga Recently, in one of the psychotherapy groups at Evexia, a young man [...]

The possible impact of loadshedding on your mental well-being

Mark Beckman2022-10-05T08:33:59+02:00Oct 5th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: loadshedding, mental wellbeing|

The possible impact of loadshedding on your mental well-being Post contributed by Laura Pakendorf Regardless of age or demographic, loadshedding is something that affects [...]

Why does Evexia focus on Group Therapy?

Mark Beckman2022-09-23T09:34:14+02:00Sep 23rd, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: group therapy|

Why does Evexia focus on Group Therapy? Post contributed by July Masango | Occupational Therapist Evexia is a unique clinic where we focus mainly [...]

Why do we worry about PTSD?

Mark Beckman2022-06-28T13:25:26+02:00Jun 28th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: post traumatic stress disotder, ptsd|

Why do we worry about PTSD? Post contributed by Dr Gwen Tonyane Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder commonly known as PTSD is one of the trauma [...]

The Start and Development of Anxiety in the Mother-Child Relationship

Mark Beckman2022-05-06T11:47:21+02:00May 6th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: anxiety, mother-child relationship|

The Start and Development of Anxiety in the Mother-Child Relationship Post contributed by Marieta Dippenaar The very first anxiety-provoking moment in our lives is the [...]

Psychotherapy doesn’t work!

Mark Beckman2022-04-12T09:09:16+02:00Apr 11th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: psychotherapy|

Psychotherapy doesn't work! Post contributed by Marieta Dippenaar Psychotherapy does not work! It does not work, because it's not like a 'Panado' tablet. It is not [...]

Stormy Silver Linings

Mark Beckman2022-04-08T17:51:36+02:00Apr 8th, 2022|Categories: News|

Stormy Silver Linings Post Courtesy of Unsupermoms These past couple of pandemic years have been tough on everyone, not in the same way or to the [...]