Glass towers. Polished lobbies. Quiet confidence. The city moves like it has places to be. It does. And inside that movement live the people who keep it running, flying, trading, approving, forecasting, reconciling, managing risk, managing time, managing reputation, managing everyone else’s expectations.
This is not a rant about convenience. Convenience is amazing. Convenience saves time. Convenience keeps busy people fed. In the United Arab Emirates, food delivery has become less of a treat and more like infrastructure.
Gaming is not the villain. Let’s get that out first, cleanly. Games can be social, creative, stress-relieving, even genuinely skill-building. Plenty of teens play and remain perfectly fine, emotionally steady, academically okay-ish, socially alive.
And then one day somebody says it out loud: We need emotional intelligence training. Half the room nods. The other half thinks it is corporate therapy with slides. One person secretly Googles what emotional intelligence even means. Someone else worries they are about to be told to smile more.
In the United Arab Emirates, divorce can arrive with extra layers: multicultural households, busy work schedules, school transitions, extended family opinions, and sometimes the quiet pressure to look fine even when nobody is fine. That makes children especially good at hiding what they feel.
Here at home in the UAE, we're surging on an enormous wave of open conversation as it relates to mental health. Something that was not necessarily everyone's agenda of late has at last blown those poor stigmas out of the water and opened up tremendous heart conversations.
Mental health is sometimes the forgotten aspect of a child's school life. Healthy mental health children do well in school, have a better time socialising with their friends, and engage in the trendy activities that keep kids on the move.
Depression is an extremely complicated frame of mind that affects an enormous number of people all over the world and includes many in modern-day Dubai as well. From persistent sadness and lack of interest to fatigue and difficulty in focusing,
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder generally has us literally jumping from one to another and shifting about an awful lot, and we're also usually a little more than ordinarily impulsive or less focused than other people.
The cosmopolitan cityscape of Dubai is dynamic, multicultural, and vibrant. Although the city is full of opportunities, the fast pace of life in the city can prove to be tough on relationships. Long working hours, cultural differences, economic pressures,