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Category: Your Stories
Young India Speaks Out: Mental Health, Myths, and Misconceptions
What does Mental Health mean to you? Mental health is an essential and significant topic, and various psychologists refer to it as the optimum level of one’s physical, psychological, spiritual, and social functioning. However, according to me, it differs from…
What does Mental Health Mean to You?
By Riya Aggarwal This video was shot by young mental health advocate Riya Aggarwal
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…
Young Voices: Exam Stress is Getting Out of Hand and How to Cope
By Vera Povaiah The onset of summer means the end of exams – a time nearly everyone associates with immense stress. Though exam stress is known for being painful, it isn’t usually all bad. Mild stress can motivate students, keeping…
In the Spotlight: Mental Health Talks
Learn about mental health advocates in India via the Health Collective Spotlight series
Your Stories: What Does It Mean to Be Strong?
We all have different ways of coping with grief, loss and tragedy. What does it mean when we tell each other, even children, to “be strong”? In this powerful video, long-distance runner Payal Kamat shares with The Health Collective how she found new meaning in being strong and some of her mental health journey.
New Year, New Stories, New Us!
Let’s take a moment and recharge before we jump helter-skelter into the new year, already! We are doing just that — while I’ll be working on some new programming, content series, and more (more MORE) ways to get the community…
Your Stories: What It’s Been Like to Live With OCD
By Anuj Malhotra Filmmaker-artist-curator Anuj Malhotra worked with architect-duo, Architecture for Dialogue (AfD), filmmakers Mahesh S and Gaurav Puri, and sound designer Ketan Dua to build the gaming universe The Serpent of a Thousand Coils, delving into the minds of those with anxiety and OCD. You can read an interview with him…
Your Stories: Navigating the Map of an Anxious Mind
By Ayushi Khemka Filmmaker-artist-curator Anuj Malhotra worked with architect-duo, Architecture for Dialogue (AfD), filmmakers Mahesh S and Gaurav Puri, and sound designer Ketan Dua to build the gaming universe The Serpent of a Thousand Coils, delving into the minds of…