Have you ever felt like a celebrity or influencer really gets you, when in reality you have never even met them? Welcome to the club! By Bhavya Jain A parasocial relationship is a one-way emotional bond in which an individual feels…
Tag: Emotional Health
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…
Affirmation: I Am Loved
By Adwaita Das No matter what our gender, no matter what our race, no matter what our country, no matter what our inheritance: we deserve love. Love is the gravity that connects and supports us all! …
Learning to Grieve: Through the Tunnel, with Barthes’ Mourning Diary
By Arpita Das Joan Didion writes that grieving is an experience, but mourning is work, and she could not have said it better. Grieving is certainly something one goes through, one experiences, one gives in to, one has to submit…
Solo’s Sadventures 12: Things some ‘friends’ say
Check out more Sadventures by Solo About the Artist: Solo is a writer and cartoonist from Bangalore. She likes reading comics, playing video games and binge-watching Netflix. Her life would have been rather unremarkable had it not been for her BPD…
Learning to Grieve with Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
By Arpita Das Grief lives in the body, someone said. After my father’s death I began to understand what that insightful set of words meant. At inopportune moments, especially in a closed room with several people, I would feel my…
Covid-19 and You: Grief, Mental Health and Julian Barnes’ Nothing to Be Frightened Of
By Arpita Das We are being told by mental health practitioners and armchair experts time and again as the pandemic rages that what we are feeling right now, this heaviness, the lassitude, the pain in our gut, is grief. As…
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…
Affirmations: It’s Ok to Feel Our Feelings
By Adwaita Das Check Out More Affirmations by Adwaita Das About the artist: Adwaita is an author-filmmaker-artist. Her books Colours of Shadow, 27 Stitches, and Songs of Sanity deal with mental health awareness. Karon Kolkata Ebong Onyo Golpo, her debut…
External Event Listing: Chennai
‘Let’s Discuss the Meh’ by the Mithra Trust is an ongoing series of offline events in Bengaluru and Chennai. Here’s an upcoming event in Chennai later this month. Type of Event: This is a peer group discussion for those who…