FISH Psychology 🐟 咸鱼心理学 🐟

Are you experiencing intense, unbearable pain and sorrow because you recently lost your loved one? That is perfectly okay, it is part of the process of grieving. Everyone faces death and experiences losing their loved ones, especially during this pandemic, the death cases have risen dramatically where almost everyone experienced grief. What is grief? It is a highly intense, acute pain, and overwhelming experience of sorrow, distress, and sadness that results from the loss of a loved one. Five Stages of Grief Elisabeth Kubler-Ross proposed that we would go through 5 stages of grief after the loss of a loved one. Stage 1 - Denial In the first stage, we find it hard to believe the sudden news about the death of a loved one hence is reluctant to face the truth. The world has fallen and became meaningless. At this point, our “usual” reality has shifted completely. We are shocked and tend to deny that our loved ones had gone forever. We often felt overwhelmed by the tragic news. However, t

Have you ever wondered what keeps you waking up and completing tasks every day🤔? It is because there are different needs that we wanted to fulfill therefore causing you to carry out that behaviour or action. In other words, the needs and desires are what motivate you to act. ⎼Types of Motivation⎼ There are two types of motivation - intrinsic & extrinsic . Intrinsic motivation is the “ in side” internal force that “ pushes ” you to act or behave. For example, you study because you are hungry for knowledge. Whereas, extrinsic motivation is the ex ternal environmental factors that “ pull ” you to act or behave such as monetary rewards. For instance, you study hard because you want to achieve good grades. There are several theories of motivation, but today we will cover two main theories: ⎼Theories of Motivation⎼ 🔹 Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs 🔹 Maslow (1954) suggested five stages of basic needs and growth needs for all individuals to survive and thrive. The stages from the lowest t

  Suicide is an act of ending own life by harming own selves. However, do people really want to end their lives? Or what they really want is to relieve themselves from the pain and suffering they have long endured and death is the only way for them? Imagine if your close friends or family member committed suicide. Would you blame yourself for not being able to provide the support and help they needed or would you blame them for being so stupid as to die? Many who committed suicide have had hit a bottleneck in their lives as if the sky were falling on them making them hard to breathe. Preventing suicide can start with you. When the sky is falling in their lives, you can be there to support and encourage them to hang in there while seeking help to "move the fallen sky away". Life is not direct nor easy, ups and downs are unpredictable and unavoidable. Sometimes life is so bad and bitter that it makes you choose to end your own life to stop those suffering and torture. However,

Most people hold misconceptions about suicide . Today we would debunk some common myths or misconceptions about suicide. 1. When people talk about suicide, they do not mean it. They are just seeking attention. We tend to overlook when people say hopeless sentences such as “my life is a mess.”, “I think dying is better than staying alive.”. We may think that it means nothing, or even think that they are just seeking attention and will never commit suicide, hence ignoring it. Some would even provoke the person who is talking about ending their own lives. However, we should always take it seriously because that could be an alarm about suicide, and they are crying for help. 2. People who attempt suicide have mental illnesses It is a common myth that we believe people who attempt or commit suicide was previously diagnosed with mental illnesses such as depression. However, not all suicidal individuals have a history of mental disorders nor all psychiatric patients are suicidal. Patients wit

Have you ever wonder who can be at risk of suicide? The answer is ANYONE COULD! ❗ Suicide: Risk Factors ❗ There are some risk factors that could potentially increase the chances of individual developing suicidal thoughts or ideation. For example, having a history of family suicide or mental health illness would increase the risk of suicide. Besides that, individuals who attempted suicide previously are at a higher risk of repeating the same behaviour again. Individuals who are encountering conflict, disaster, violence, abuse, loss of close friends or family members are also at risk of attempting suicide given the overwhelming stress and negative emotions that they are feeling. Indirect or direct exposure to suicide behaviour would increase the chances of the exposed individual imitating such behaviour, especially when they are dealing with stressful events or life crises. Lastly, victims of bullying or discrimination are also at higher risk of attempting suicide. As they undergo verbal

What is Suicide? Suicide is the act of a person intentionally ends their own life. What is Suicide Attempt? Suicide attempt is the act of a person intentionally cause oneself death but failed to do so. Suicide attempt may not always result in death, but a nonfatal suicide attempt can leave the person with serious physical injuries and affects a person’s mental state. -- Suicide Facts Suicide is a sensitive topic. It is also one of the common death causes nowadays, regardless of the age, gender, or ethnicity of the person. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 700 thousand people died due to suicide every year, and the numbers are not inclusive of the cases that are not reported! 77% of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries. Hanging, firearms, and ingestion of pesticides are common methods of committing suicide. In Asian countries, not restricted to suicide topics, the topic of mental health issues is always seen as a taboo🚫. Hence it is not often mention