Wasted opportunity: Reflecting on the media’s response to SSR’s death
SSR’s untimely passing provided an opportunity for the country to have a serious discussion on what mental illness looks like and feels like.
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Demystifying mental health and mental illness
Often people think that it is humiliating to go for a mental checkup as they might be called a mental patient. People feel ashamed, but they shouldn’t.
My experience with relief work during lockdown
Relief work is a lot more of an emotional cauldron, and being a social worker, it is very important to understand and channelize your own emotions while you go out to support families. It is also important for us to understand that we are not the centre of the work.
A healthy mind rests in a healthy body
A healthy body is an achievement. It is a reward in itself. The way we would feed our body, the same way it will respond back.
Rising pressure and anxieties among Indian students
In our society failure is not seen as an opportunity to learn but indicates a child’s inability at performing a particular activity. This creates an irrational belief that even the slightest failure means being unsuccessful in life.
Mental health: Are we dealing with stigma virtuously?
An environment which supports and respects the integrity of a person to support and provide basic fundamental rights is a must for improving mental health. Self-help approach is effective in coping up with adverse mental illness.
Fibromyalgia is not curable; only manageable
12th May is every year commemorated as Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, and May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month worldwide.
Self-love during COVID: A 29-point guide
Self-love in times of extreme physical distancing is a must for our mental health and overall wellness. Don’t fall into the trap of believing that self-care or self-love is being selfish. It is not. In fact, in a situation like this, it is the best you can do for yourself and others.
We all need a Self-Care plan for the lock down
As we all struggle through the lockdown/curfew and various other COVID-19 restrictions, it has become essential that we follow some practical and useful advice from reliable sources about our mental health too. To begin with, this loss of routine and control is annoying and can set in anxiety and sometimes depression. We must thus focus…
Mental health crisis amidst Delhi’s protests and violence
Delhi witnessed unprecedented violence since 24 February 2020. Across the world, political protests and violence related to social unrest is a new reality. In India, ever since 11 December 2019, there has been an ongoing social movement against a new Citizenship Amendment law. Before that, the society was outraging against the various incidents of sexual violence against…
How do we deal with child sexual abuse
Recently Facebook and all social media were abuzz about child sexual abuse allegations on famous Hindi poet Nagarjun. The lady Gungun Thanvi in her thirties recently narrated the abuse that happened to her when she was merely seven years old in a Facebook post that was later found removed or hidden. The social media is abuzz with…
Is capitalism driving us crazy?
Mental health is probably the most ignored aspect of one’s health. Seeing the data of rising mental illness, it will not be suitable for us if we keep ignoring this impending epidemic. Globally, more than 264 million people suffer from depression. Over 8,00,000 people commit suicide every year, which is roughly one person every 40 seconds. There is…
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