Category Archives: Mental Wellbeing

පවුලක සතුට සාමය සඳහා වැදගත් වන්නේ මොනවාද? මේ පැණයට ඔබ නොයෙකුත් පිළිතුරු දෙයි. ඒ අතර එම පවුලේ බැඳීම යන කාරණය තියෙනවාද? වෙන වචනයකින් කියතොත් යම් පවුලක (වෙසෙසින්ම බිරිඳ සහ සැමියා අතර) ඇති බැඳීම බලවත් නම් එම පවුලේ සතුට වැඩියි නේද? ඒ වගේම ළමයින් ඉන්න පවුලක  සැමියා, බිරිඳ සහ ළමුන් අතර බැඳීම බලවත් නම් ඒත් එහෙම…

In your professional psychiatric opinion to what do you attribute road accidents to? What is the psychiatric aspect to road accidents? Road accidents are not under the purview of psychiatrists but under transport experts. However, psychology has a very important role here. From here onwards I would be mostly commenting as an expert of psychology…

Why Mental Health is actually going to get better after the war? Sri Lanka was a typical low income country in most ways except with regards to health indices for many decades. Sri Lanka’s indices of general well-being, such as maternal mortality rate and life expectancy, and also indices related to well-being such as literacy…

Are competitive sports good for kids? What are competitive sports? Sports is not beating each other (including its literal meaning as well) in whatever way possible. Getting off the blocks before others do so you reach the finish line first. Jumping high and winning by playing with disabled people. Injuring the best bowler by thumping…

Is marriage a fountain of happiness or a source of suffering? In the current day Sri Lanka, wedding ceremony has superseded marriage in importance. Some of us spend years, if not decades, preparing for our weddings. We spend enormous amounts of money, often borrowed at a high interest, on the function. A vast number of…

Health: Whose Responsibility Is It? The first International Conference on Health Promotion, meeting in Ottawa on the 21st day of November 1986, presented their charter for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond. The charter stated that ‘health promotion’ is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and…

Suicide Why are we not taking this issue seriously? Suicide is a major happening particularly in Sri Lanka. In the mid-nineties Sri Lanka had a dreadful record showing a stand of “World’s No. 1 suicide rate”. At that time over forty people died out of every 100,000 within a year. The cause of death was…

Suicide: Have we not still taken the bull by the horns? Suicide is a major problem in Sri Lanka. In mid-nineties Sri Lanka had the world’s no. 1 suicide rate. At that time over forty people died out of every 100,000 within a year due to suicide. That is over 8,000 people per year. That…