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Pakistan Ill-Equipped to Deal with Disease of the Mind
Read more: Pakistan Ill-Equipped to Deal with Disease of the MindPart C: Problems and Solutions The dislike for people in need of psychological treatment is so deeply woven into our culture, our home and our workplaces that it will need massive awareness raising to help overcome this issue. The problem is also of perception regarding mental illnesses. People perceive people with such problems as weak…
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Pakistan Ill-Equipped to Deal with Disease of the Mind
Read more: Pakistan Ill-Equipped to Deal with Disease of the MindPart B: The Neglected Special Needs Children As a Pakistani and someone who has been through psychological problems from 15 years of age, I can say this with certainty that Pakistan is not ready to treat mental illness at all. There is no training for the doctors or teachers who can diagnose and identify a…
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Pakistan Ill-Equipped to Deal with Disease of the Mind
Read more: Pakistan Ill-Equipped to Deal with Disease of the MindPart A: Reflection of Personal Experience I can still recall how it all happened so fast. I was in our car with my dad. Suddenly I burst out in tears. There was so much sadness. We were having a normal conversation but I just had this sudden profound urge to cry my lungs out. I…
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Hiring Experienced Professionals Only?
Read more: Hiring Experienced Professionals Only?‘Experience is the teacher of all the things’, Julius Cesar. That is undeniably true. However, if not given any opportunity there will be no way to gain experience. Are you an unemployed undergraduate looking for an entry level job? Have you seen the years of experience requirement for those entry level jobs? Have you held…
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Life Lessons My Car Taught Me
Read more: Life Lessons My Car Taught Me‘Khat, khat, khat! Crunch, crunch, crunch! Dug, dug, dug!’, this is what my car sounds like. You see people talk about their brand new cars but you never really see them post pictures of cars that sound like this or the junk they might have driven a long time back. Well, I still drive the…
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The Beauty in Diversity: Part 2
Read more: The Beauty in Diversity: Part 2‘When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man…
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The Beauty in Diversity: Part 1
Read more: The Beauty in Diversity: Part 1People fail to see the beauty in diversity. It could be the diversity of opinion or simply diversity in colors of our skin or the sizes of our bodies. Amazingly it is human psychology to associate diversity with weakness and hate it. This diversity is what should make us stronger and kind to each other…
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Dear parents, let go.
Read more: Dear parents, let go.Parents’ need to let go; parents’ need to let their kids learn from their own mistakes and gain their own experiences. I understand that there is an urge to protect your kids all the time, but that’s not possible. I also understand that you want to see your child have a happily ever after, but that’s…
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Shumaila Bhatti 