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As screen time increased, withdrawal from society, rule breaking, and aggressive behaviour were noted among children. There is little impact of socio-personal factors such as gender, area of residence, family background, and academic performance on screen time addiction.

In Delhi’s Aali village, 300 houses were sealed and marked for demolition. In areas facing routine demolition drives, the ‘assailant’ isn’t a person but an unpredictable administrative process, which causes extreme relentless stress to the residents.

Around 400 captive elephants in India suffer from chronic stress, abnormal behaviours, and very poor mental health due to lack of natural habitat.

Of the 5.4 million climate migrants in India, 2.5 million were in Assam. Forced migration is harder on children, who end up suffering from headaches, nausea, and stomach aches without any identifiable organic cause.

In the past decade, many farmers of Hanumangarh—an otherwise arid region—have moved to vegetable cultivation. Since then, they have had to deal with lesser uncertainty and stress.

Decades of living with cyclical conflict has built a fragile resilience in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir. But long-term living with the unpredictability of violence breaks people.

Constant exposure to global conflicts is turning a generation of Kashmiris, who have witnessed trauma and violence, numb.

Journalists are at a high risk of secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout. Several journalists have directly or indirectly experienced a traumatic event through work; mental health concerns are an occupational hazard in journalism.

A preoccupation with a muscular and lean physique leads to several mental health problems, the worst of which is muscle dysmorphia. Many young men become body builders to sculpt an identity, but some go too far.