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Category: Mental Health
Dealing with Suicide Loss: A Daughter’s Memoir
Trigger warning: #Suicide
This excerpt relates to a death by suicide. Please do not keep reading if you are feeling triggered. Please reach out for help via helplines or trusted professionals
My Take: Great Books that Helped Me
Dear Readers, This time I have compiled a list of self-help books that have personally helped me over the years. I was always that not-so-intellectual person who never read anything apart from fiction but recently I have taken to the…
Can We Really Rediscover the Art of Doing Nothing?
By Adwaita Das
‘Depression is not something that happens to weak people’
In this episode of Health Collective Talks, Amrita Tripathi speaks to mental health advocates with lived experience Shubhrata Prakash and Arjun Gupta (who is also a counselling psychologist). What are some myths, misconceptions? And what do they want you to know about their journey? Let’s find out.
What is More Powerful Than This: I Accept Myself
By Adwaita Das Self-acceptance is crucial for our individual and collective wellbeing. Rather than hinder our discipline, accepting the self has the opposite effect: it allows for greater growth on all fronts, including personal and professional. The inner child requires assurance and…
How to Practise Self-Love: A Poem
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In the Spotlight: Mental Health Talks
Learn about mental health advocates in India via the Health Collective Spotlight series
An Affirmation for the New Year: I Let Me Be Me
By Adwaita Das Being our unique selves is essential to evolution itself. Instead of spending energy trying to fit into norms and stereotypes, we can take time to understand who we are really. Then make more and more space to let…