Looking after your own wellbeing should be about self-affirmation and not costly facials
Families say many are still waiting for results of autopsies performed last year.
Children who experience discrimination may be more at risk of mental and physical ill-health.
What if we thought of suicide as the outcome of a terminal illness instead of the outcome of an action?
The creator of ‘The Foxy Five’ deserves praise, but the writing could improve.
People living in cities and downwind of coal power stations breathe in high levels of nitrogen dioxide, which does significant damage to wellbeing.
Medical aids cover far less for psychiatric illnesses than they do for physical ailments.
War-torn Somalia spent more than two decades without a working Parliament, so why are Somalis happier than South Africans?
Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?
Gauteng health department hopes to avoid legal battle as more bodies are discovered.
Key players say the culture of government created by Jacob Zuma allowed the deaths of 94 health patients.
Almost 100 Gauteng mental health patients died after MEC Qedani Mahlangu’s disastrous decision, the health ombud has found.
The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn’t, psychiatrists call it ‘complicated grief’ and it can be treated.
This year wasn’t pretty but from its ashes may rise important scientific advances that could change the course of history.
Warning, this article contains sensitive details about Father Christmas. Kids, look away.
After Sierra Leone’s civil war, money poured in for mental health services. But a decade later, there’s little left to help Ebola’s victims.
The former Gauteng health MEC says it wasn’t her job to visit organisations prior to transferring state patients into their care.
Community mentalhealth care can be better for patients and health systems if it’s done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu breaks her silence over the department’s deadly decision to transfer psychiatric patients.
A decision by the Gauteng department of health has left at least 36 dead but has the scandal lifted the lid on the horrors of mental healthcare?
Iimbali is a space for stories and other narrative-based social analysis.
Sizwe Hlatshwayo may be the 38th patient to die after being moved from state-funded hospital care. It took almost a month for his family to find out.
Society has a skewed view that healthy people don’t take medicine but rising rates of chronic illness may call for a re-think of that perception
It’s World Yoga Day. Mindfulness has seen a resurgence in popularity and is slowly making its way behind the walls of prisons in South Africa.
There is not a significant amount of empirical research data that shows the link between violent protest and emotional trauma.
The callous disregard shown at many levels for the wellbeing of vulnerable people proved fatal.
In the words of Edgar Allan Poe: “Men have called me mad, but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence …
When a parent is diagnosed with a mental illness, the chances of emotional support are decreased and the risk of family discord is high.
Professionals are being asked to look critically at the discipline’s ability to respond to South Africa’s context.
There are too few psychiatrists, so a foundation is using a Canadian model to rehabilitate people.
Clinical depression is tough to experience and understand. It consists of a wide variety of mood disorders, which impact lives differently.
The book is an entry to the world of a psychiatric patient on the effects of her medication, the flashbacks and the loneliness.