Wanderer Wordweaver Woman

Population ageing is a global issue, which has been recognized to have implications on the health care and social welfare systems. The process whereby the proportion of children in the population decreases and those of old persons increases is known as the “ageing of population”. […]

We’re all a bit scared of loneliness – of being alone. Of being left. Of not being loved. Or needed. Or cared about. “Lonely” hits a spot of fear in all of us even if we don’t acknowledge it. Being alone is a state of […]

There are three stages of stealing- Stealing because you need it, stealing just because of a habit and third being recurrent failure to resist urges to steal items that you generally don’t really need and that usually have little value. Kleptomania is a type of impulse […]

Introverts are some of the most underrated and misjudged people today, and how most people perceive them is far from who they really are and what they really do. Extroverts tend to be better at communicating and expressing their thoughts and feelings, while introverts are […]

OK. We have made a lot of hoopla around mental health and the forms of illness and we will continue that. But the question that i was asked by a reader was how to speak about it. And gosh, that is important and we completely […]

First i want to make some points crystal clear before you read: Gender dysphoria is not the same as gender nonconformity, which refers to behaviors not matching the gender norms or stereotypes of the gender assigned at birth. Examples  include occasional cross-dressing in adult men. […]

Most of us binge eat or head straight to refrigerator when we are stressed, but do you know this when uncontrolled may turn into a serious psychological disturbance . According to the National Institute of Mental Health eating disorders primarily affect girls and women.1 But eating […]

I had plans to write Depression for the day four of A to Z Challenge and yesterday the news came of a 20 year old boy committing suicide at Mumbai. The way he live streamed his suicide on Facebook was scary. I just felt that […]

Child sexual abuse, a cause that is very dear to my heart, it still shudders me every time i hear a story of abuse in my sessions.  Yes, i am covering it in my #SpeakUp series because it has profound psychological effects on a child’s […]

When out of all the poets who received the Pulitzer — the prize awarded to those who made the biggest contributions to the human spirit — 38 percent of them were bipolar, how can we simply label it a human disorder? Think how much more […]