Alone in the Crowd: Overcoming Loneliness of Urban Living is a new book out by Dr Samir Parikh and Kamna Chhibber. Read an excerpt here and check out our e-interview with the authors. Can you share more on this phenomenon…
Year: 2021
It’s Not Just the Pandemic: Understanding Urban Loneliness
In a city high-rise, sitting in the balcony on the 25th floor, sipping tea, you look out into the horizon, city lights glimmering in the distance, cars fading away as they rush across the highway. You are surrounded by silence…
Getting a Breather: Let’s Allow for Time to Rest
It’s time to bid 2021 goodbye – instead of hustling till the last second, let’s think of giving ourselves a breather, and time to rest. Affirmation by Adwaita Das for The Health Collective
Back to the Basics: How to Remember to Breathe
By Adwaita Das In situations of distress or panic, we often reduce our breathing. But, to breathe is one of the best tools of self-soothing. It oxygenates the body, detoxifying the blood, airing out the brain, opening windows of fresh…
From the Asylum to the Mental Hospital: Tracing India’s Journey
Author Daman Singh set out on an ambitious quest to research and understand India’s journey in the mental healthcare space — from the ‘lunatic asylums’ of the 18th century, to the emergence of a more scientific and humane approach in the early 20th century.
‘I am Unique and I will Allow Myself Appreciation’
We all need encouragement and appreciation, validation and support. Will we allow ourselves to accept it, though is the question.
Can Understanding Impermanence Help us Cope with Life?
With Indians daily battling stigma and many misconceptions when it comes to Mental Health, Gayatri Jayaraman shares some of what she believes to be key to a mind-spirit-body practice, what meditation has to do with it, and why understanding and accepting impermanence and change may be critical to making peace with our day to day life.
Anitya: Understanding Impermanence and Change in a Post-Pandemic World
By Gayatri Jayaraman The practice of embracing change happens in the face of those who make a virtue of its opposite – constancy. It’s what will keep you standing when change hurtles down the lane at you and the skittles…
I See You: You are Not Alone
By Adwaita Das You are unique and wonderful. You are worthy of all that is good. You deserve to be loved just the way you are. I see you. I see myself too. For the inner self as well, this…
World Mental Health Day: Know You are Not Alone
By The Health Collective If you live in India and would like to order a complimentary set of these art postcards, get in touch! Fifty sets on offer for patrons, friends of the Health Collective and readers Email team@healthcollective.in or…