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Tag: mental health
Walking on the Edge: How My Borderline Personality Disorder Impacts My Life
A personal essay on the experience of navigating life as a person with borderline personality disorder.
A Slower Life
A poem on ways to include more joy in our lives by slowing down and appreciating the little things, and by reconnecting with nature.
Sing Your Depression Out With Lauv
An ode to Lauv and his music as a medium to create mental health awareness.
Depression Through the Eyes of a Naive Child
The person that I loved and adored the most in the world was suffering, and I was a helpless onlooker.
Fifty Paise
An ode to my stubborn and resilient grandmother, explaining how those close to us remain with us – even after death – in our habits, thought patterns and tendencies.
The Rebels in the Corner
A poem written during a difficult phase in the author's life.
A Rekindled Friendship as Therapy
The way he told me that I was not alone in my mental health journey made me feel visible and heard amidst a volley of texts which had simply …
Battles Between My Body and I: Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder
After being subjected to bullying and fat shaming, both at home and outside, the author developed multiple eating disorders and was finally diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder at the …
‘My Gayness Won’t Make Your Child Gay, Uncle’
A poet from a middle-class family in a small town writes about the daily turmoils of being queer in a homophobic world.