Mental Health

Tag: Mental health

Smiling successful woman with artificial breasts in front of a dollar bill

Inner voice

02.September 2026 Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Success and its pitfalls

Einstein never won the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, and as a young man he was told that he would never amount to anything. Who knows if we will ever understand what Tesla was actually telling us. Cézanne died unknown, Nietzsche was discovered only when he was no longer able to communicate with anyone, Bizet died from the torment of Karmen was not accepted... Imagine what your life would be like if these and similar people gave up the first time they failed at something and were told they were losers. Or fifth. Or thousands

SAD

13.August 2026 MLJ

Mental health crisis: Sailors of the aircraft carrier "USS Abraham Lincoln" tried to jump into the sea

Sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln tried to jump into the sea, writes "The Guardian". That's because the crew has been in action for nine months and has spent a record 250 consecutive days on board without calling ashore.

Social media

07.August 2026 A.M.

The court ordered Matt to pay $567 million for the mental health of the children

A New Mexico court ruled that Meta must pay another $567 million for endangering the safety of children on its platforms. The company rejects the accusations and announces an appeal

Mental health

20.May 2026. Anja Mihic

Horder in the neighborhood: I need everything

When the need to accumulate things breaks through the boundaries of one's home, a collective misfortune emerges from a private misfortune. The institutions have no answer, the neighbors live in hell, and the person who accumulates things becomes condemned to isolation

A woman with a phone in her hand and at a computer

Mental health

02.April 2026. Isidora Ceric

Digital detox: How to "get off" the Internet and why it is so necessary

Constant exposure to information leads to a drop in concentration, memory loss, increased anxiety, a feeling of being overwhelmed, neck pain, and eye fatigue. Digital detox or fasting is a way to regain control over our own life

The influence of social networks on the mental and cognitive development of young people

02.April 2026. Milan Milošević

Little Red Riding Hood and the Cyber Wolf

Likes trigger dopamine hits of pleasure, fueling addictive behavior. The need to be constantly online increases feelings of loneliness. Idealized images of other people's lives and bodies increase dissatisfaction and depressive symptoms. Around the world, there are more and more calls for stricter regulation of the work of social network owners

Inner voice

02.April 2026. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

What do psychotherapists actually do?

When the session begins, it may seem like a conversation to you, although it is obvious that you are doing more of the talking than the therapist. During that time, however, a good psychotherapist listens so much that the only comparison I can think of is the black-and-white footage of Mravinsky trying Unfinished and reacts to subtleties that I will never be able to discern. I don't care if everyone gives better advice, the therapist is an Olympian winner in recognizing that your voice trembles because you hide tears, that your pauses are longer than usual and you hesitate on some topics, that you often return to some experiences while you never mention others...

Social media

27.march 2026 KS

Historical precedent: Meta and Google convicted of intentional addiction

Meta and Google have lost two lawsuits over the impact of their platforms on mental health. Will the first rulings start an avalanche of similar lawsuits?

Inner voice

18.march 2026 Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

How to choose a psychotherapist

Despite different beliefs, titles mean nothing. You need a person who will be able to understand and put up with you. "Some big drmr" might be great at it, another might use titles just to charge you a fortune. Although we put a lot of faith in experience, research shows that younger therapists help better than older ones, probably due to enthusiasm and supervision. Neither should the impressions you get in the media be decisive, regardless of how eloquently and convincingly someone might speak

Inner voice

19.February 2026. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Waiting for law on psychotherapy

How have legislators across Europe dealt with the issues of defining psychotherapy, psychotherapist education and licensing? What is the situation in Germany, and what is the situation in other European countries? What can Serbia learn from that? What awaits us in that field

Psychology

16.January 2026 Dragan Radovancevic

The world's pain of an individual

Today, mental health is most often presented as a personal problem that needs to be "fixed", but the question of why suffering has become an almost universal condition is persistently avoided. It is precisely in this avoidance that the key problem is hidden

Inner voice

26.November 2025 Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Disappointment

How much you will be disappointed primarily depends on what and how many expectations you had and it is almost directly proportional - the higher the expectations, the deeper the disappointment. And an unimaginable number of life problems can arise in that dynamic

Interview: Aleksandra Savić Parojčić

16.October 2025 Sarah Kalember

Unhappy children in "happy" families

The fact that in the population of our children between the ages of 11 and 19 the percentage of suicide attempts was determined to be 4,5 percent is extremely worrying. All this speaks of great mental suffering, the way out of which can be seen in the end of life. Regardless of the cognitive limitations of this age and the lack of awareness that the end really means the end and that there is no going back after such an act, we as a society can always wonder if a young person has lost trust in the world of adults so much that he did not even ask for help

Illustration of a social network symbol above a human click device

World Mental Health Day

10.October 2025 KS

Between likes and fear: How social networks "destroy" young people

Social networks are more and more widespread, especially among young people, and how they affect mental health

Mental health

08.August 2025 KS

Why is there a shortage of antidepressants in Serbia?

The shortage of antidepressants containing venlafaxine, such as Venlax, Advent and others, has hit pharmacies throughout Serbia. The replacement medicine will reportedly arrive on the domestic market only next week

Mental health

16.April 2025. Katarina Stevanović

Between stigma and grooming: Psychotherapy in a psychologically vulnerable society

Uncertainty, crises, penury, feeling powerless, speed of life, stress, alienation from human contact in the era of social networks, flood of contradictory information... Many people find it difficult to cope with all these challenges by themselves, so they turn to a psychotherapist for help more and more often. Has Serbian society finally come to terms with the importance of mental hygiene?

Mental health

31.October 2024 MJ

South Korea fights against suicides: What is Serbia doing?

South Korea is the country with the highest suicide rate. Now some measures are being taken against it. Serbia is also not far from the top of the black list

TV maniac

23.October 2024 Dragan Ilic

The economy of empathy - experiencing or experiencing

Conflict is shown instead of dialogue, aggression instead of tenderness. We have evidence for this thesis in all program segments, from reality shows to political debates to dramatization of sports events and weather forecasts. There is a constant trade in attention through the explicit display of violence

Mental health

22.October 2024 B. B.

In Serbia, managers often think that everything is allowed to them and that other people are not important

It is possible for someone who is persistent enough to get into a position from which he manages people, without anyone having previously checked whether and to what extent he is mentally disturbed, says the head of the "Laza Lazarevic" psychiatric clinic, Igor Radosavljević.

Cyberchondria

18.October 2024 Bojan Bednar

Doctor Google: The search for a cure leads straight to disease

Cyberchondria, i.e. the escalation of health-related anxiety caused by persistent searches and reading content about symptoms and diseases on the Internet, can develop into depression and obsessive-compulsive disorders, psychologist Jelena Vukičević told Vreme.

World Mental Health Day

10.October 2024 Sanja Zrnić

Young people in Serbia want psychological support, but for many it is unattainable

On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, we spoke with young people from Belgrade about how they take care of their mental health and how much help is available to them.

Inner voice

09.October 2024 Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

And what about mental health?

More than twenty years ago, the World Psychiatric Organization announced that the biggest problem is neither disorders nor treatments, but stigmatization. Simply put, the problem is not that someone, for example, is depressed, the problem is that we who live with and around him have not yet evolved enough to be able to continue to see him as a person, despite the current mental disorder. so that we are not afraid of him almost automatically, and that we are able to treat him with humanity and compassion

The scourge of the internet

09.October 2024 MS

Lawsuits against TikTok: Legal process against the social network launched by 14 countries

Prosecutors in 14 US states filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, October 8, due to the harmful impact on mental health and the collection of personal data.

Health

06.May 2024. MJ/ Radio Free Europe

Mental health of police officers: They wait for retirement rather than a systematic examination

Research shows that one in seven police officers suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Are inspections of police officers in Serbia and the region carried out regularly?

SAD

25.January 2024 ZS/Your psychologist

The trend of banning social networks for under 16s

Another state in the US has approved a law banning children under 16 from accessing social networks to protect them from the risks that can affect their mental health. Special pedagogue Anđela Zlatković explains for "Vreme" the expediency of those measures

Personal attitude

11.October 2023 Dr. Maša Vukčević Marković

Words are not enough

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, in Serbia, there are between four and five psychologists per 100.000 inhabitants within the health system. This means that if all the people who are dealing with psychological difficulties for which they should seek help actually turned to a psychologist within the health system, the last of them would wait four years for an appointment

Health care

06.August 2023 MJ

The day hospital from Paunova will be transferred to Vračar

Minister of Health Danica Grujičić told RTS that they found three locations for that hospital and that only the fourth one, in Kneginje Zorka Street, was suitable for employees.