The Health Collective is a place for stories, original reportage, art and comics around Mental Health and Mental Illness, from an India lens. Edited by journalist and writer Amrita Tripathi (that’s me), the site is meant to be a safe…
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Alone in the Crowd: Here’s What You Need to Know about Urban Loneliness
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…
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…
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.
Social Connection: Friendship and the Bonds that Help us Overcome
This pandemic may just have taught us to re-examine the things that matter, the relationships we take for granted, and how we go about building a support system in the first place
Happy Fifth Birthday to Us: A Colouring Sheet for You
Artist Solo shares a Colouring Sheet for The Health Collective readers, contributors and tribe, as we turn 5! Feel free to screenshot or download this Colouring Sheet brought to us by the wonderful Solo. Instructions: 1. Download here 2. Print…
The Pandemic is still Going Strong: Are you Suffering from Loneliness?
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and physical distancing has led to an increase in isolation and loneliness. How can you learn to cope if you or your loved ones are feeling loneliness and other triggers?
The Age of Anxiety and How to Cope: Panel of Experts
Are we living through an Age of Anxiety? And what are some coping techniques? We put that quesiton to a panel of mental health stakeholders and contributors of our new book, Age of Anxiety
New book ‘Age of Anxiety’ is now available
Do book your copy now if you can! Also check out our first two books in the Mindscape series: Real Stories of Dealing with Depression and Young Mental Health ALSO READ
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