A safe space for conversations on mental health and mental illness in India
By Devanik Saha India’s impending health crisis is not a secret at all. With several indicators –- maternal mortality, infant mortality, number of live births, etc — being worse than countries poorer than India, there is a definite need to revamp the…
When it comes to pre-teens and adolescents in India, pretty much the most only time we hear about anything to do with mental health is the much-dreaded “exam-related stress”. Every year, around Board exams and a little before, we wake up…
By Amrita Tripathi It’s not easy living through — or with, rather — some of these issues. The black beast, anxiety, panic attacks, these can all weigh us down and sometimes feel like an invisible veil of sadness that nothing can…
By Dr. Maria Luisa Hincapié We all want our children to be healthy and happy. While we promptly whisk our kids off to the emergency room or the pediatrician when they are physically ill; many parents struggle when confronted with…
Hi friends, hope you’ve survived the apocalypse that is post-Diwali pollution. (Those of you outside of Delhi, save yourselves!) So we were pretty impressed with this evocative, descriptive post by Koval Bhatia, she of A Little Anarky fame… Do take…
It’s strangeland, Those cracks; They opened, They swallowed, I fell through, I clawed; With my anger, With my hope; Until the darkness ate them too. So I walked into it, And finding no ground; I floated and sank, Floated and…
Monday October 10 marks World Mental Health Day — at the very least, one day designated (by the World Health Organisation) for the world to pay attention to mental health issues. Of course those are issues we care about year-round, and we couldn’t…
By @mariner1001 Our contributor @mariner1001 shares a second part to a blog on Living With Bipolar Disorder. You can read Part One of the blog here Coping with Bipolar disorder has been a long struggle — the early period was…
By Deepa Singh This personal narrative of my battle through anxiety and depression is written from the perspective of sharing my story with as many people as possible in the hope of reaching out to those who may benefit from…
By @gulzaarzindagi I had my first episode in 2004. From college until my first job, I thought it was just a phase of depression. For the first few years, I could not even understand what happened to me in 2004…And why…