Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Written By Sonali Patnaik‘We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet’ – William Butler Yeats &n...

Managing Substance Abuse

Written by Michelle ManassehSubstance abuse seems to be a distant concept until someone you know suffers from it. For me, it was a distant cousin, a college student who was being treated for drug and alcohol abuse. It was heart wrenching to see this young boy go through intensive mental h...

Depression Is Not a Stigma: 5 Famous People Who Spoke Up About It

1 in 10 people in India suffer from some degree of depression. It does not help that the Indian society at large still sees depression as a stigma. It is quickly equaled to an untreatable manic disorder that has to be brushed under the carpet. The fact that signs of depression can often be more...

Decoding ADHD

‘ADHD’, ‘brain disorder’, ‘no cure’. Put all of these terms together and you have a pretty scary-sounding diagnosis. Add to this the fact that we live in a society that prefers to avoid and ignore all mention of mental illness, considering it something to be ashamed of. However, what we ...

What Exactly Is Counselling?

Written by Rupalim PatgiriIt is a myth that counselling is only for people who are suffering from serious mental health issues. Every one of us has problems that begin as minor concerns and irritations, nonetheless causing some amount of discontentment on a regular basis. If not dealt with at the in...

Introduction to Down Syndrome and Mental health

Down's syndrome is a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in extra genetic material from chromosome 21. It causes a distinct facial appearance, intellectual disability and developmental delays.Individuals with Down syndrome have- delay in cognitive development with specific de...

Mental Wellbeing: Let’s Talk about It

Written by Sonali Patnaik10th October has been observed as World Mental Health Day every year since 1993 and is an initiative by the WHO. In the age of extremely rapid information exchange across the world, it seems ironic that we as a society are still hesitant to talk about anything remotely relat...

Improving job concentration in easy steps!

Surveys show that some people check their emails over a whopping 30 times per hour, a figure so mind-boggling one questions how they get any work done at all. The Internet and smartphone technology make it a whole lot harder for workers to concentrate on the tasks at hand—from emails to social med...

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