By Dr. Maria Luisa Hincapié We all want our children to be healthy and happy. While we promptly whisk our kids off to the emergency room or the pediatrician when they are physically ill; many parents struggle when confronted with…
Your Stories: Feat. a SnapRant on Depression
Hi friends, hope you’ve survived the apocalypse that is post-Diwali pollution. (Those of you outside of Delhi, save yourselves!) So we were pretty impressed with this evocative, descriptive post by Koval Bhatia, she of A Little Anarky fame… Do take…
Your Stories: A Journey
It’s strangeland, Those cracks; They opened, They swallowed, I fell through, I clawed; With my anger, With my hope; Until the darkness ate them too. So I walked into it, And finding no ground; I floated and sank, Floated and…
World Mental Health Day
Monday October 10 marks World Mental Health Day — at the very least, one day designated (by the World Health Organisation) for the world to pay attention to mental health issues. Of course those are issues we care about year-round, and we couldn’t…
Your Stories: Living With Bipolar Disorder (Part Two)
By @mariner1001 Our contributor @mariner1001 shares a second part to a blog on Living With Bipolar Disorder. You can read Part One of the blog here Coping with Bipolar disorder has been a long struggle — the early period was…
Your Stories: How I Fought My Way out of Depression and Anxiety
By Deepa Singh This personal narrative of my battle through anxiety and depression is written from the perspective of sharing my story with as many people as possible in the hope of reaching out to those who may benefit from…
Your Stories: Living With Schizophrenia
By @gulzaarzindagi I had my first episode in 2004. From college until my first job, I thought it was just a phase of depression. For the first few years, I could not even understand what happened to me in 2004…And why…
Your Stories: Overcoming an Eating Disorder (Part Two)
This is Part Two of A Guest Post on Developing…and then Overcoming an Eating Disorder You can Read Part One Here (Trigger Warning: Eating disorder, Food Addiction) The New Year’s Eve celebration was the biggest for all of a century.…
Your Stories: Overcoming an Eating Disorder
By Anonymous Editor’s Note: This is Part One of a two-part blog. Dear Contributor, Thank you again, for your courage in sharing. TRIGGER WARNING: Eating disorders, food addiction “You’re not fat, you’re just big”. This was a common refrain that I…
Your Stories: Feat. A Book of Light
By Amrita Tripathi Writer and columnist Jerry Pinto needs little introduction, and as many of you will have seen and read…he has followed up the widely acclaimed Em and the Big Hoom with a powerful and intense book he’s edited — A Book of Light: When A…