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By Aparna Piramal Raje Ayesha Billimoria looks slightly anxious at the start of a recent ‘LEGO Serious Play workshop on exploring your mental health’. The athlete, coach and founder of Project Fit.Girl, an initiative to encourage sports amongst rural Indian…
BipolarIndia – an online community in India set up by a person living with Bipolar Disorder, for people living with Bipolar Disorder and Depression – has been an inspirational peer support group. Read the full interview with founder, Vijay Nallawala and…
Join Adwaita Das and The Health Collective in a new journey of poetry for self-love. Here is the first poem in the Beloved: Poems for Self-Love series, entitled ‘Mirrorspeak’. Do share your thoughts, comments, and poems with us if you…
Many of us living with bipolar disorder do not have sufficient information or insight into the condition, how it affects us, and how best to manage it. Families face a bigger challenge, at times, on this front. It is unfortunate that psychoeducation is grossly inadequate, says Vijay Nallawala, founder of Bipolar India.
By Chintan Girish Modi Aparna Piramal Raje is a columnist, author, and teacher who lives with bipolarity. Her new book Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health is a candid account of her lived experience as a person who has worked…
By Ishita Mehra As The Health Collective turns 6, celebrating this community, our stories and sharing why they matter, artist Ishita Mehra writes and illustrates this moving message to all of you.
Following is an e-interview with debut novelist Shreya Ramachandran, author of The Worlds Within You. Do read a short excerpt of the book here. Tell us a bit about what led you to write about The Worlds Within You? It’s strange…
The unseen facet of stress during this pandemic has been the impact of constant anxiety about our loved ones. The Great Recalibration of our priorities is underway and it’s a much-needed move, writes Dr Karan Thakur
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…