By Scherezade Siobhan As I wrote in my previous column, emotional abuse is incredibly dissonant to process on several levels both psychologically and physically and at the onset of healing from it, the journey can feel a little like steering…
Creating Art: From Self-Expression to Healing
By Jerin Jacob “This is SO overwhelming. I need my book! and my colours! I need to switch off, right now!” We all have times when we absolutely, completely zone out and need a break, or rather, some me-time. ‘Me-time’…
Heart Mothers: Adoption and Maternal Mental Health
By Swarnima Bhattacharya There are as many motherhoods as there are mothers. Their subjectivity, journeys and experiences all mould and galvanise, defining the experience of motherhood in a multiplicity of ways. Despite being an intensely personal, fluid experience, motherhood is…
Emotional Abuse: Move Past Commentary to Compassion
By Scherezade Siobhan My client H is a bright-eyed software engineer with an envious fountain of noodle curls for hair. In her first session, we actually bond over the implicit politicisation of women’s hair as she declares she would do…
Solo’s Sadventures: Episode 07
As a young girl navigating through mental illness, I had a rather vivid imagination. Years later, I also realise how morbid it was. Also Read: More Sadventures by Solo Solo is a writer and cartoonist from Bangalore. She likes reading,…
Know Your Rights: Mental Healthcare Act 2017
By Arjun Kapoor This series will explore the rights of Persons with Mental Illness under the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 [“MHCA”]. This article looks at the MHCA, the lens of a rights-based approach, and your right to access mental healthcare…
Taking Care of Ourselves: #MeToo & Mental Health
By Scherezade Siobhan The prominent writer Clarice Lispector once wrote, “Many were they who abandoned all they had and went in search of the greater hunger.” The emergence of #MeToo across India’s digital landscape has created a new social climate…
Legends of Tomorrow: Talking Mental Health and Queer Lives through Sci Fi and Fantasy
By Ilina Acharya There is something about the show Legends of Tomorrow that has left me captivated. Maybe it is the revelation that there are TV shows such as this that are queer, have kickass female leads as well as fun and…
Once Upon a Time: The Keys to Romance
By Tanya Vasunia It is through our relationships that we evolve and thrive as human beings. The last ten years have seen considerable changes in the inter-personal relationship landscape, with the boom of telecommunication services and internet connectivity. As such, the…
Me Too and Mental Health
ACJ Student Pritha Mallick reached out to us with some questions around Mental Health and #MeToo. Here are some edited excerpts of an interview with psychologist and Health Collective contributor, Kamna Chhibber. 1. One of the first reaction to women’s…