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Tag: mental health
Lockdown and Mental Health: A Laid-Off Young Journalist in Chennai Writes
Let us not forget a section of people who suffer silently, haunted by thoughts that drive them to inexplicable negativity.
You’ve Done It. You’ve Gone To Therapy. Now How Do You Tell Your Friends?
I tucked my sessions into a corner of my heart and went in every single week for my liberating tune-up.
Bloggers Turn ‘Mental Health Influencers’: Monetising Pain for Personal Gain
Mental health issues are plaguing us now more than ever. But can we substitute a licensed professional with a verified Instagrammer?
By Only Blaming Nepotism, We Prove That We Don’t Understand Mental Health
Drawing a direct line of causation between Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide and the way Bollywood treats outsiders does incredible injustice to his struggles with mental health, as well as …
A Mind That Stinks of Death
I struggle between a vision to change the world and a dying, strangled motivation that seems to whoosh out of me every chance it gets.
Haven or Hell
A poem on the realities of being trapped indoors.
One Teenager To Another
A 17-year-old pens a poem with the hope of letting other teens know that they are not the only ones feeling like there's nothing to look forward to.
Mourning Sushant Singh Rajput: Notes on the Hegemonic Bollywood Bully Club
Will Bollywood's cartel culture go unquestioned? What happens once the news cycle over Rajput's death is done and dusted?
Anjana Hareesh’s Death Reveals a Crisis in Mental Healthcare in India
In my years of training in mental health, I learned that what needs to be diagnosed is society, not the individual.