Understanding Mental Health: Talk, Listen, Stay Informed

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Your Stories: How to Travel Light

The Health Collective is delighted to feature an interview with Shreevatsa Nevatia, author of How To Travel Light: My Memories of Madness and Melancholia (Penguin RandomHouse India, 2017). We highly recommend the book, which releases October 25, 2017 in India.  Nevatia speaks…

Your Stories: Sadventures by Solo

Art by Solo for The Health Collective   About the artist: Solo is a writer and cartoonist from Bangalore. She likes reading, playing video games and binge-watching Netflix. Her life would have been rather unremarkable had it not been for her BPD-fuelled imagination. She…

Severe Side Effects: One Woman’s Journey Through Antidepressants

By Bee Rowlatt “Antidepressants can save lives, but they made me want to kill.” Katinka Blackford Newman learnt the hard way. When the British film-maker’s marriage fell apart in 2012 she began having sleepless nights. She went to see her…

Your Stories: The Great Meltdown and the Healing that Came Next

Our brave contributor shares her story, and would like to keep her identity anonymous. July-August 2015 were bad months for me. My boyfriend of 4-odd years had broken up with me after months of strife, over Skype. I had found…

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