Image of smiley faces and sad smileys with text that says online bullying and the unkindness epidemic

Online Bullying Isn’t Always What You’d Think It Is: Panel

Team Health Collective IRL vs URL: What would you choose? A panel discussion hosted by The Health Collective opened with this reflective question that Snapchat executive and parent Poonam Nikam often asks students, to evaluate the balance between their online and…

Art Self Care and Mental Health April 2019

Young Mental Health: A Message to End Bullying

By Amrita Tripathi It’s an incredible thing to meet young people — an event that can often spark hope and the strong belief that things will change for the better. Thanks to Dr Samir Parikh, Kamna Chhibber and the Fortis…

Students March

PSYCH-Ed: Talking Positive Mental Health, One School at a Time

By Dr Samir Parikh Having closely worked in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health with various schools over several years, we have realised the necessity of understanding the kind of problems faced by children and adolescents from their…

Ask the Experts: Bullying and School Kids

By Dr Amit Sen Bullying I feel is hugely underestimated and a lot of people don’t quite understand what it means. Schools that say they don’t have bullying– and many schools say  they don’t have any bullying in their schools…

Ask the Teens: The Insta Generation

By Amrita Tripathi While I was initially attempting to do a story on how parenting has changed in this digital age, given the pressure to always be ‘on’, and look good while you’re at it, I essentially got schooled by a couple…

Dating in the Digital Era, Teenage Style

By Amrita Tripathi We’re used to talking about the stress that teenagers face due to exams, but what about the impact of the Digital Age? And relationships at this fraught age? Not just on teens, but parents, and the entire…

Ask the Experts: Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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…