Art by Kishore Mohan/ Health Collective Editor’s Note: If you or anyone you care about might be at risk of anorexia/ bulimia/ body image disorders, please reach out to a trained professional for help. You will find a list we’re…
Month: September 2017
The Law and You: Mental Healthcare Insurance in India
By Vandita Morarka An India Spend report highlights that 60 million Indians suffer from mental disorders, this is about 6.5% of the country’s population. The World Health Organisation also estimates that around 57 million Indians suffer from depression. A recent survey…
Solo’s Sadventures: Episode 2
Art by Solo for The Health Collective Solo is a writer and cartoonist from Bangalore. She likes reading, playing video games and binge-watching Netflix. Her life would have been rather unremarkable had it not been for her BPD-fuelled imagination… Read more of…
Ask the Experts: Fighting Against Child Abuse
Child Sexual Abuse is a subject many parents find difficult to talk about, let alone educate their children about. While there is no question that experts feel you must have the conversation with your child sooner than later, do read…
Depression
Art by Pig Studio for The Health Collective ALSO SEE: ANXIETY by Pig Studio
Workplace Stress and the Need for Me Time
By Sukanya Sharma Stress is everywhere you look these days -– a fairly generic term, it’s something most people can relate to, given the fatigue, exhaustion, and extreme levels of multi-tasking while trying to maintain some sort of balance. “The corporate world thrives…
Understanding Therapy and Challenges En Route
Kishore Mohan for The Health Collective Inspired by: THE GREAT MELTDOWN AND THE HEALING THAT CAME NEXT
Battles in the Mind: An Excerpt
We feature a moving excerpt from Battles in the Mind, a book written by Anna Chandy, chairperson of Deepika Padukone’s Live Love Laugh Foundation (and Padukone’s therapist). This excerpt is published with kind permission of Penguin Random House India. Battles in the Mind by…
The Rise and Fall… Stages of Borderline Personality Disorder
(Images Courtesy: Solo for The Health Collective) Solo is a writer and cartoonist from Bangalore. She likes reading, playing video games and binge-watching Netflix. Her life would have been rather unremarkable had it not been for her BPD-fuelled imagination. She also has 4…
We Need to Talk: The Anna Chandy Interview
Amrita Tripathi interviews Anna Chandy, author of Battles in the Mind, and Chairperson of Deepika Padukone’s The Live Love Laugh Foundation to find out more about her own journey to healing, and what the Foundation has been up to in…