Let’s try to make some of the conversations around Mental Health easier, less jargon-y. This can also be helpful to navigate a lot of the information on the site and out there! LET’S TALK: MENTAL HEALTH EXPLAINERS Let’s Talk about…
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Living with Anxiety and Learning how to Cope
Sartaj Singh It’s not just the discomfort (thanks to the racing heart and expeditiously working lungs that resemble Titanic’s pistons) that I brave every day, but also the shame that comes along when people stare at my dancing limbs. It’s…
Your Stories: This is What Anxiety Can Feel Like
Anxiety: One can’t always manage to express what’s going on inside…which happens to be a lot of emotions and thoughts…like a cutting tearing ripping from within…A screaming screaming screaming inside! The illustration tries to capture that cacophonic razor-edged war in…
Health Collective Talks: Real Conversations on Mental Health in India
What do we make of ‘Mental Health in India’ — What are the issues we need to be talking about, the conversations we need to be having? Where is the reality check to balance out the pop psychology on display,…
My Journey with Anxiety: No, It’s Not Nervousness
By Ayushi Khemka A year or two ago, I remember seeing a popular “women-centric digital platform in India” selling their own merchandise, specifically a hoodie with “ANXIETY! ANXIETY! ANXIETY!” written over it in big, bold letters and bright colours. On…
Your Stories: What It’s Like to Deal With an Anxiety Disorder
What does it feel like to have Anxiety? Is it any easier to talk to friends and loved ones about Anxiety these days, or has the popular use of the words anxiety and depression made things a bit more complicated?…
Anxiety and Us: What We Need to Know
By Amrita Tripathi I interviewed Dr Soumitra Pathare of the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, ILS Pune, for a book I’m working on called ‘The Age of Anxiety’ (co-authored with psychologist Kamna Chhibber). You can read more about…
Covid-19 and You: Tunes for Troubled Times
By Ilina Acharya The Covid-19 world has changed the topography of how we lead our lives. It has also triggered anxiety and affected our mental health. Uncertainty and the resulting stress can take over the mindscape. My oxygen mask for…
Covid-19 and You: Therapist Dr Shelja Sen Shares a Message for the Batch of 2020
We asked noted Child & Adolescent Psychologist and Family Therapist, Dr Shelja Sen, a noted author and co-founder of Children First, to share her thoughts for the Batch of 2020 and their parents. Here is her message below! Do read…