State Tobacco Cessation Cell

18th February

The President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika was invited as a resource person to talk on ‘ Addiction, quitting and cessation techniques of tobacco use disorder’ organised by the State tobacco cessation cell of National tobacco control program at Grand Bhabendraloy on the 18th February 2020 to train the district coordinators, NCD, psychologists and DMHP for implementation of District Tobacco Control Programme.There were around 30 participants and the interaction was quite stimulating.

Sensitization talk on LGBTQA

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Bornali Das, the Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) delivered a sensitisation talk on “conforming and non-confirming roles of LGBTQA” amongst the students and teachers of Bal Bharati School, Guwahati, along with Milin Dutta and Mayuri Deka.

Psychosocial and vocational training

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“The effectiveness of psychosocial and vocational training for mentally challenged in a day care centre” by Mythili Hazarika (President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL]), Uddip Talukdar, Sandamita Choudhury, and Shyamanta Das (Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS®]), and published in the Journal of Rural and Community Psychiatry, is now in PubMed (PMID: 31984219) as well as in PubMed Central (PMCID: PMC6980156).

Keynote speaker

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Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) was the keynote speaker at the premier Assam Engineering College in the Faculty Development programme organised by the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in association with Multi-skilling and Sustainability Centre. She spoke on “From the womb and beyond: the bio-psycho-social perspectives in mental health”.

Inaugural function

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The President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika was with the Principal of Assam Engineering College, Dr Atul Bora and HOD Dr Dinesh Pegu of Electronics and Telecommunication during the inaugural function, and delivered the inaugural speech at Assam Engineering College in the Faculty Development Programme organised by the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in association with Multi-skilling and Sustainability Centre.

Alcoholic Anonymous

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Bornali Das, the Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) was invited as Chief Guest to a Seminar by Alcoholic Anonymous (AA), “Impact of alcohol use disorders in families of addiction” in Guwahati. AA is an international mutual aid fellowship with the stated purpose of enabling its members to “stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety”. AA is nonprofessional, self-supporting, and apolitical.

Out of the closet

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The symposium, “Out of the closet: challenges of the LGBT in clinics and community”, conceptualised by Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), is presented by Nilofar Rahman, Rajvardhan Narayan, and Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in the 72nd Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS 2020) at Kolkata.

Psychosocial and vocational training

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Social networking sites

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“A comprehensive study regarding contribution of social networking sites (SNS) to mental stress, anxiety, and depression among adolescent school students in Guwahati: the research design” by Aditya Goenka, Shyamanta Das, Anjana Moyee Saikia, and Mythili Hazarika, and published in the Global Journal for Research Analysis is now in PubMed (PMID: 31929979) apart from being in PubMed Central (PMCID: PMC6953969).

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