Category Archives: Mental Wellbeing

There is a peculiar unease many of us recognise but rarely articulate. We are entertained constantly, informed endlessly, stimulated relentlessly — and yet, afterward, something feels thin. The sensation is not boredom. It is not dissatisfaction. It is more like emptiness after fullness, or satiety without nourishment. Everything works. Nothing stays. This essay is not…

Note: This article was written soon after the 2015 Presidential Election.   Who will win the health battle in Sri Lanka: People or Big Corporations?  Sri Lanka was a typical low income country in most ways except with regards to health indicators. For many decades, maternal mortality and life expectancy were impressive. Indicators related to general…

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…