KZN Mental Health Advocacy Group

21/11/2025

Examples of emotional abuse include:

* Verbal abuse: Shouting, name-calling, insults, and constant criticism.

* Intimidation: Threats of harm to you, your pets, or loved ones, or threatening to leave you.

* Control: Monitoring your behavior, restricting contact with friends and family, controlling your finances, monitoring your cellphone.

* Humiliation: Embarrassing you in front of others, or making you feel foolish.

* Gaslighting: Twisting events, lying, and making you question your own memory and reactions.

* Isolation: Keeping you from seeing or talking to other people.

18/11/2025

As the KZN Mental Health Advocacy Group we support the calls to declare gender-based violence and femicide a national emergency.

There can be no mental health without safety first. We must work towards a caring society in which girls and women feel safe both at home and in public places, and free from harm.

This is our collective responsibility.

On Friday - create awareness about women's rights, GBV, and amplify calls for improved mental healthcare services in the province to help deal with the root causes that lead to violence in society.

17/11/2025

A new week = new opportunities to do something different.

14/11/2025

Lawyer Previn Vedan discusses employee rights in the workspace.

If your mental health is suffering due to work-related stress or intimidation, you have the right to be heard.

The law is on your side.

The CCMA is a free, accessible platform where an employee can lodge a complaint for unfair labour practice, unfair discrimination, or constructive dismissal.

In addition, the Labour Court or Labour Appeal Court can intervene.

When people feel respected, they create more. When they feel safe, they stay longer.

13/11/2025

Students, are you feeling overwhelmed or emotionally stretched? 😵😓

Join the PsySSA Student Division for an online Wellbeing Self-Care Circle — a gentle space created to help healthcare students pause, reconnect, and breathe again.

📅 Wednesday, 26 November 2025
⏰ 17:30 – 19:00
💻 Online via Zoom
📩 psyssastudentchair@gmail.com
👥 Exclusive to PsySSA Student Division Members

Spaces are limited, RSVP now to secure your spot!

Click here for more information and to RSVP: https://www.psyssa.com/student-wellbeing-self-care-circle-for-student-division-members/

12/11/2025

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges practitioners talk about in our support group. It's time we speak about it openly.

Join us for this important conversation with Advocate Muhammad Zakaria Suleman where he will share his strategies for managing anxiety in court.

🗓️ Thursday, 20 Nov | 6pm
📍 Online: https://bit.ly/47JiL2A

Everyone is welcome!

08/11/2025

We support the The South African Federation for Mental Health Call To Action to address violence as a significant challenge to mental health in South Africa.

06/11/2025

The World Health Organisation guidelines suggest that a minimum goal of about 20-minutes of physical activity per day is good for our mental health.

Research shows that we need to reduce sedentary behaviour – such as sitting for long periods of time. Sedentary behaviour that requires little mental effort, e.g. watching TV or just scrolling social media, has been linked to increased risk of future depression.

Awareness of the mental health benefits of movement and exercise has been growing around the world. Exercise can have a powerful impact on our wellbeing – from promoting general health and building positive social connections to helping prevent or treat mental and physical health conditions.&nbs

06/11/2025

Catch Anele Ndlovu tonight for a discussion on men, the workplace, and their mental health.