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Mental Health: You Need to Know This (Tamil)
Some myths that you need to know about mental health
My Take: The Insta-Feel Good Accounts That Made My Week
Hello readers, It’s the weekend (yay!) and that means it’s time for another edition of #MyTake. For this week, I have selected a bunch of Instagram accounts that help me cope with my mental health and make me feel like…
Why young Indians Swear by Self-Care during Covid-19
Self-care is not a luxury, but a necessity, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn what some young Indians are doing to care for themselves, and some helpful tips from a clinical psychologist in a special series on The Health Collective in association with One Future Collective
Affirmation: I Am Loved
By Adwaita Das No matter what our gender, no matter what our race, no matter what our country, no matter what our inheritance: we deserve love. Love is the gravity that connects and supports us all! …
Learning to Grieve: Through the Tunnel, with Barthes’ Mourning Diary
By Arpita Das Joan Didion writes that grieving is an experience, but mourning is work, and she could not have said it better. Grieving is certainly something one goes through, one experiences, one gives in to, one has to submit…
Game On: How Playing Video Games Helped My Mental Health
By Ananya Borgohain While Covid-19 and the lockdowns have made the world a smaller place, they have also reduced it to the status of a narrow portal, where students, the elderly, professionals and homemakers alike live in unison with uncertainty,…
Learning to Grieve with Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
By Arpita Das Grief lives in the body, someone said. After my father’s death I began to understand what that insightful set of words meant. At inopportune moments, especially in a closed room with several people, I would feel my…
I Allow Healing Thoughts: An Affirmation for You
By Adwaita Das These are trying times when we have to be sensitive to ourselves. It is fine to feel fragile. It is normal to feel despair. It is also ok to allow healing thoughts. Check Out…
How the Light Gets In: Attending to our Anxiety about COVID-19
This is the second part of a two-part series. Do Read Part One on Anxiety, Fear and the Covid-19 Pandemic here By Scherezade Siobhan Lately, I have been watching documentaries about folklore to stave off my own depressive and anxious…