Hi everyone. This postcard comes from hospital bed, so ignore the typos. It’s been two days i am admitted here with complaints of dizziness, unconsciousness and general lethargy. So here i share my ward with another occupant, one Mrs Dsouza who is here since a week. I sat down to write my journal, a habit […]
depression
Dear Kate Spade, i hope you are at peace now
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Chester- You held us from falling then….why the fuck?
Dear Chester I woke up today with my endless news app flashing that you committed suicide. And I was numb, yeah numb is what only you understood fully. As I write this I go back to this young girl on a sports trip where you were introduced to me. My first rock, that thumping, that […]
Just go to hell……….Ae Dil #J #AtoZChallenge
Let’s talk about one factor that leads to anxious days, sleepless nights and depressing moments- Toxic Relationships. Relationships turn toxic and because that’s how addiction is, trying to find comfort in the same thing that’s destroying you. But you still fight for it, you fight for same thing that has destroyed you. This poem is […]
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 […]
Let there be no D for Depression
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 i could reverse back the time clock and talk to […]
हम सब में दरार है जो दिखती नहीं 2: सिर्फ ब्रेकअप से डिप्रेशन नहीं होता
दरार जो बताता है कि कुछ टूट गया है, कुछ दरक गया है, शायद आर पार नहीं, कोई टुकड़ा नहीं पर दरार बताती है कि कुछ टूटा जरुर है. कुछ पिघल गया है अन्दर मोम की तरह जो चाह कर भी वैसा नहीं हो पा रहा जैसा पहले था. पर जरुरत भी क्या है पहले […]
हम सब में दरार है, जो दिखती नहीं
कुछ दिन पहले पोएट्री के एक इवेंट में गयी थी .यहाँ 15 लोग आये थे, 15 अजनबी जो एक दूसरे को बिलकुल भी नहीं जानते थे, 15 कहानियाँ, 15 कवितायेँ, 15 मन और सैंकड़ों दरारें. साथ में रहते, एक दूसरे को अपनी ज़िन्दगी में आने का, झाँकने का न्योता देते वे 15 लोग एक दूसरे […]