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...

Most Prominent Causes of Mental Health Issues

Diagnosing mental illness is a lot different than diagnosing other chronic ailments, for instance, heart disease. Heart diseases can be identified with the help of ECG. Diabetes can be diagnosed with the help of blood tests. When it comes to brain though, doctors are still working towards effective ...

Common Myths about Mental Illness That India Needs to Dismiss

India is a rapidly developing nation. But even in this modern age, a grave concern such as mental illness is not spoken about openly, and patients are often shunned marginalised by society. In 2001, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that globally 450 million people suffer from mental dis...

Finding the perfect balance between work and play

Being driven and focused on your job is great, a commendable trait which seems to be absent in a lot of workers around the world. However, letting your job become the center of your world and taking your attention off everything else, is not. It’s downright cruel to those with whom you share your ...

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