- Feeling depressed ?
- Recently been diagnosed with a mental illness ?
- Has your doctor suggested counseling or cognitive behavioral therapy?
- Do you feel no one understands you?
Don’t worry! We are hear to listen, all day, every day. Call us now and say no to suffering in silence.
Umang is Pakistan’s very own 24/7 mental health helpline accessible totally FREE OF COST. We care about your wellbeing and want to improve the lives of those with mental illnesses. Our mission is to fight the taboo associated with mental health and raise awareness nationwide.
Umang is Pakistan’s very own 24/7 mental health helpline accessible totally FREE OF COST. We care about your well being and want to improve the lives of those with mental illnesses. Our mission is to fight the taboo associated with mental health and raise awareness nationwide.
We formed in May 2019 and have a highly qualified and experienced team on board.All our counselor are regulated and monitored by senior certified psychologists with over 10 years of experience among-st them.
Organization (WHO) and registered as safety
partners of Facebook and Instagram as a mental
health resource from Pakistan.
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Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn’t worth living.
More than just a bout of the blues, depression isn’t a weakness and you can’t simply “snap out” of it. Depression may require long-term treatment. But don’t get discouraged. Most people with depression feel better with medication, psychotherapy or both.
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and can be beneficial in some situations. It can alert us to dangers and help us prepare and pay attention. Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness or anxiousness, and involve excessive fear or anxiety. Anxiety disorders are the most common of mental disorders and affect nearly 30 percent of adults at some point in their lives. . But anxiety disorders are treatable and a number of effective treatments are available. Treatment helps most people lead normal productive lives.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something that’s unlikely to cause harm. The word itself comes from the Greek word phobos, which means fear or horror.
Hydrophobia, for example, literally translates to fear of water.
When someone has a phobia, they experience intense fear of a certain object or situation. Phobias are different than regular fears because they cause significant distress, possibly interfering with life at home, work, or school.
People with phobias actively avoid the phobic object or situation, or endure it within intense fear or anxiety.
Combination of biological, psychological, and/or environmental abnormalities contribute to the development of eating disorders!Some people may see eating disorders as phases, fads or lifestyle choices, but they’re actually serious mental disorders. They affect people physically, psychologically and socially and can have life-threatening consequences.
Anorexia nervosa, more commonly known as anorexia, is both an eating disorder and a metabolic condition that results in excessive weight-loss and extreme thinness caused by self-starvation.
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a serious illness that can have a significant negative impact on those who have it.
It is the most common type of eating disorder and affects almost 2% of people worldwide.
The disorder is treatable. Your doctor can help you stop and, later on, get to and maintain a healthy weight. The first step is to understand why you’re bingeing.
If you have bulimia, you’re probably preoccupied with your weight and body shape. You may judge yourself severely and harshly for your self-perceived flaws. Because it’s related to self-image — and not just about food — bulimia can be hard to overcome. But effective treatment can help you feel better about yourself, adopt healthier eating patterns and reverse serious complications.
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/eating-disorders/what-are-eating-disorders
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness marked by extreme shifts in mood. Symptoms can include an extremely elevated mood called mania. They can also include episodes of depression. Bipolar disorder is also known as bipolar disease or manic depression. However with proper medications and therapy symptoms cab be managed.
https://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/mental-health-bipolar-disorder
A panic attack is an intense wave of fear characterized by its unexpectedness and debilitating, immobilizing intensity. Your heart pounds, you can’t breathe, and you may feel like you’re dying or going crazy. Panic attacks often strike out of the blue, without any warning, and sometimes with no clear trigger. They may even occur when you’re relaxed or asleep.
No matter how powerless or out of control you may feel about your panic attacks, it’s important to know that there are many things you can do to help yourself
https://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/panic-attack-symptoms
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault.
Psychotherapy, including cognitive behavior therapy can help control symptoms and help prevent them from getting worse and developing into PTSD. Medication, such as SSRI antidepressants can help ease the symptoms.
PTSD symptoms can vary in intensity over time. You may have more PTSD symptoms when you’re stressed in general, or when you come across reminders of what you went through. For example, you may hear a car backfire and relive combat experiences. Or you may see a report on the news about a sexual assault and feel overcome by memories of your own assault.
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd
Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, neither good nor bad. Like any emotion, it conveys a message, telling you that a situation is upsetting, unjust, or threatening. If your knee jerk reaction to anger is to explode, however, that message never has a chance to be conveyed. So, while it’s perfectly normal to feel angry when you’ve been mistreated or wronged, anger becomes a problem when you express it in a way that harms yourself or others.
You might think that venting your anger is healthy, that the people around you are too sensitive, that your anger is justified, or that you need to show your fury to get respect. But the truth is that anger is much more likely to have a negative impact on the way people see you, impair your judgment, and get in the way of success.
Chronic anger that flares up all the time or spirals out of control can have serious consequences for you
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others. Though schizophrenia isn’t as common as other major mental illnesses, it can be the most chronic and disabling. Schizophrenia involves a psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person can’t tell what’s real from what’s imagined. At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality.Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling. Schizophrenia requires lifelong treatment, even when symptoms have subsided. Treatment with medications and psychosocial therapy can help manage the condition and can end up making the individual high functioning. However In some extreme cases, hospitalization may be needed.
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/what-is-schizophrenia
ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood. Children with ADHD may have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors (may act without thinking about what the result will be), or be overly active.
It is normal for children to have trouble focusing and behaving at one time or another. However, children with ADHD do not just grow out of these behaviors. The symptoms continue, can be severe, and can cause difficulty at school, at home, or with friends.
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/adhd/what-is-adhd
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental illnessthat causes repeated unwanted thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or the urge to do something over and over again (compulsions). Some people can have both obsessions and compulsions.
OCD isn’t about habits like biting your nails or thinking negative thoughts. An obsessive thought might be that certain numbers or colors are “good” or “bad.” A compulsive habit might be to wash your hands seven times after touching something that could be dirty. Although you may not want to think or do these things, you feel powerless to stop.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/obsessive-compulsive-disorder
Bullying is when people repeatedly and intentionally use words or actions against someone or a group of people to cause distress and risk to their wellbeing. These actions are usually done by people who have more influence or power over someone else, or who want to make someone else feel less powerful or helpless. There are many different types of bullying that can be experienced by children and adults alike, some are obvious to spot while others can be more subtle. The different types of bullying that we look above are some of the ways that bullying could be happening.
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show developmental differences when they are babies—especially in their social and language skills. Because they usually sit, crawl, and walk on time, less obvious differences in the development of body gestures, pretend play, and social language often go unnoticed.
In addition to language delays and behavioral differences, families may notice differences in the way their child interacts with peers.
Keep in mind that one child with ASD will not have exactly the same symptoms as another child with ASD. The number and severity of symptoms can vary a lot!
Parents should Trust their Instincts.
If you have concerns about how your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, or moves, talk with your pediatrician.
Before you go to the appointment, complete a free developmental milestone checklist.
https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/understanding-autism-basics
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MESSAGE FROM CEO & CO FOUNDERDR. KINZA NAEEM
Suppose you are fighting a ‘physical’ illness that ends up making your life a constant struggle, would you prefer asking for help, or let it take a heavy toll on you?…. The answer to this seems very simple, yet for more than 80% of the Pakistanis suffering from mental health conditions ,this question reflects a very real dilemma. Everyday we run into biases that makes it impossible for us to trust anyone with the very truth of our lives. We get to hear insensitive stuff people say in casual conversations about those they perceive as being ‘cuckoo’ or ‘ mentally unstable :
The vision behind founding Umang is to break this very taboo and to smash this tragically hard to shake stigma. Our goal is to provide people with a safe space and professional help alongside, through our super competent team of clinical psychologists. We do realise that old beliefs die hard but together we all can be a compassionate antidote to this ugly stigma and uproot it for good.
OUR PILOT PROJECT WITHFEROZSONS LABORATORIES LIMITED
The physical health of an individual can take toll on the mental health of that individual, his family and the health care professionalwho dealing with his ailment.
As the coronavirus subsides, we will be dealing with a mental health epidemic. To provide meaningful psychosocial support to the health care professionals, their patients and caregivers Umang has partnered with Ferozsons Laboratories Limited.
Our mental health is critically important for our well-being, but too often remains ignored or unaddressed. Patients, frontline healthcare workers and first responders are exposed to numerous stresses. Helping patients and healthcare providers cope is critical to sustaining quality healthcare provision for the public.
OUR IMPACT
PATIENTS FEEDBACK
I just had my first ever therapy with the therapist I was afraid about how it will be but I am so so happy that it went well. She is really really supportive and sweet. I was crying throughout but she supported me all they way and I eventually was calm and smiled at the end
Means a lot to me to me. Thank you so much Umang you are doing a very noble deed may Allah bless you
anf
Umang makes my life easier. Now I can easily communicate my mental and personal life issues with psychologist who deals with it professionally and try to find out the solutions. I will suggest this platform to all my friends and family members so that they can get benefit from it.
Anon
I had a first suggestion with Dr Rabia. She was a good listener and she have given good suggestions. The overall experience was good. Thanks for Dr Rabia and Umang platform. They are doing a good job. Thanks! I hope I get better soon…