Hey, I know it is hard for you. I know you are tired. You are struggling to survive with the demons that are close and loud. I know you try to silence your intrusive thoughts during the day and hide from them at night and the hell they put you through. I understand how hard you work to hide it all, pretend you’re okay and paint a convincing smile on your face. I know all of this has left you exhausted and [...]
A 19-year-old felt indescribable peace and comfort as he lay down on his bed wearing lipstick. The chaos outside mirrored the barrage of thoughts in his head. Every once in a while, the shoutings of his family members would jolt him back to reality. With the harsh obstacles society leaves for us, LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual) community finds it very difficult to disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity because of the overwhelming fear. Research suggests that [...]
“Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an E.C.G means we are not alive”- Ratan Tata Ups and downs are an embedded part of our lives, while on the way up we all feel a sense of high self confidence and morale but as soon as our life starts going downhill our inner self critic damages the self esteem. Soon we start focusing on all the negative aspects of [...]
Don’t let Stress Get Better Of You We live in times where stress has become an imbedded part of our daily routine life. Ever wondered how our body deals with stress? Our body activates resources like adrenaline and cortisol, which sharpens our senses to deal with stress or a pressure situation. But many times these resources supplied to cope up with stress reach a shortfall, just like while doing a physically challenging task our body starts running low on fluids. [...]
Living in India is challenging when you are a part of a society, whose opinion sometimes matter more than the feelings and state of mind of a person. The road towards recovery of a person afflicting from a mental disability becomes subdued and tougher amongst such circumstances. Many a times, treatment and counseling is not enough, what completes the healing of a person suffering from a mental problem is love. Perhaps love is the only intangible element which has the [...]
“Happiness is not something you find at the end of the road… it is here now.” Personal Note- Many times in my small life I contemplated is life worth living, what is the point of my existence, is there really a god and lastly are people worth loving? Don’t read ahead if you haven’t asked yourself these questions in your life without finding an answer. Here is a how I found something a lot like happiness. 1) Acceptance- It is one of the [...]
The beginning When the symptoms start to show up of mental disorder (I will include addiction to a substance/alcohol as a mental disorder) most of us try to pull that under the carpet, thinking the mental disorder will subside on its own and its nothing. We fail to acknowledge its presence, the gradual signs of impact it is having on our personal and professional well being. Most of the times we are ashamed deep down and that acceptance which is [...]
The System Unlike the most other professions, the road to becoming a doctor is harder, with little rewards in the beginning until the Doctor establishes him. It all starts from studying and burning the midnight oil right from class 11th, securing good marks, and topping medical examinations and amongst baffling percentage of reservation for some, one finally gets a seat in a medical college. The struggle just begins there for a person pursuing medicine thereafter, extraordinary amount of admission fees, [...]
Anxiety You step out of the house and there are places where people observe you or you have a fear in the mind that they are observing you. That fear you feel restrains your movement, damages your confidence and you can’t help but thinking about what people are thinking about you, are they judging you? Or speaking ill about you? That anxiety increases several times when you are facing a high authority figure like your boss, teacher or even a person with higher social or [...]
Will want to CIGARETTE SMOKING BE Banished? Release Ciggie, a long cylindrical roll of cigarette smoking is actually smoked by gents for thousands of years. Nonetheless, given that it has been the reason behind lots of incapacitating illnesses, there have always been necessitates so that it is blocked.webpage In recent years, the requires an overall bar on smoking cigarettes principally in public areas has really become a bit more strident. But, there are a lot that believe a bar on [...]
