Dear Kate As usual i was having an anxious night battling my demons when a push notification came on my phone about Kate Spade’s suicide, and I felt a rush of vertigo. I had to almost go lie down on bed to steady myself, had to take a few deep breaths. I was introduced to you […]
The Bachpan Project
If you are not exactly sure what sexual abuse is, you’re not alone. Join the Bachpan Project for advocacy against Child Sexual Abuse. Let’s give back the children the bachpan that they deserve free of any abuse.
An open letter to parents of people fighting depression
Back to blogging after a long time, just that i avoid writing these days. But yesterday a phone conversation and today when i read about a letter of regret by a father who didn’t ask his son to come back, i sat down to write this. I am usually a very private person when it […]
The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about – Child Sexual Abuse
Often at the sessions of “The Bachpan project”, I wonder why it’s difficult for the child to speak about child sexual abuse. Why do they go though years of abuse to finally accept it? Why do they even need a counsellor when they have parents around? Believe it or not, In most societies child sexual […]
Think Positive………is all that we have to say?
I used to take sessions on mental illness at schools under my Bachpan Project, i have many people, many readers discussing their “issues”, as they call it with me. I don’t call it issues, i don’t like to call it illness too because it is much deeper than that. I call it life, life because […]
No Country for old men
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”. The global population of elderly has constantly been increasing during […]
Being alone is not the same as being lonely #L #Loneliness #AtoZChallenge
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 being by oneself without others around. It can actually be […]
May be it’s not just a habit #Kleptomania
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 control disorder — a disorder that’s characterized by problems with […]
The Incredible Irresistible Introverts #I #AtoZChallenge
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 known to be reserved and hesitant when it comes to […]
How to speak about your mental condition #H #AtoZChallenge
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 missed it. If you recognize symptoms of any common mental […]
When Gender is the demon……… #GenderDysphoria
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. Gender nonconformity is not a mental disorder. Gender dysphoria is […]