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SADAG urges parents and guardians to support matriculants while they await matric results

Parents and guardians have been urged by the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) to talk to young people who are nervously awaiting their matric results. Speaking on VOC Breakfast on Monday, Kia Cordeiro, SADAG Cape Town Coordinator & Social worker said young people need to know they are supported by loved ones during this period. “You already wrote your exams and no matter what you do, you cannot […]

today2 December 2024

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Mental health: Depression within the workspace

By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert One of the most common mental health conditions that workers experience at work is depression. The World Health Organization estimates that 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression. In South Africa, depression affects about 27% of people. While employees hold many roles outside the workplace ranging from being parents, providers and everything in between, it is almost impossible to not face symptoms of depressions from time […]

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‘Running has been a great form of therapy for me’: mental health activist after battling depression and accident

Six months after being hit by a car during a morning run, sustaining head and knee injuries, Mmatshepo Seoka this week completed her first marathon. “It was amazing and it was difficult, I won’t lie,” the 25-year-old said of the 42km Wally Hayward Marathon. After Seoka set off on November 8 for her usual morning run in West Park, Pretoria West, she woke up in hospital with no memory of […]

today5 May 2022

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Epidemic of fatigue hits SA as 82% of Covid-19 survivors say they’re in the long haul

NATIONAL Most Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital still have symptoms a month later, according to SA's first study of “long Covid”. Fatigue was reported by more than two-thirds of the 1,448 people in the study published this week in a National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) bulletin. A quarter of people reported problems with mobility and anxiety/depression ranging from mild to severe, and 85 individuals blamed long Covid for a […]

today7 August 2021

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SA depression group receives increased distress calls during lockdown

The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) said on Tuesday it had been receiving a higher number of calls from people under stress since the start of a five week national lockdown to April 30 enforced by the government to try and reduce new transmissions of Covid-19. In a statement, SADAG said many callers were stressed about a combination of issues including the spread of the coronavirus, their finances, […]

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Abused women, twice as likely to be depressed

As World Mental Health Day was marked on Monday, very little attention was given to victims of domestic abuse who, as a result of their abuse, suffer from depression in isolation. In response to the silence on sufferers of depression, the Saartjie Baartman Centre is calling on Cape Flats communities to provide safe spaces in which victims are free to open-up about their trauma. The centre, which is a shelter […]

today11 October 2016

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