Featuring a powerful Survivor Story in collaboration with The Suicide Prevention India Foundation. Anurag Khanna is a 26-year-old from Kolkata who works as a business analyst in Bangalore. This is a part of his story. When I was five, I lost my father to a heart attack but my mother made sure we (my elder […]
THE HEADLINE: Studies take a closer look at Mental Health challenges faced by LGBTQ Youth (Reuters) WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Three studies conducted in the US were published in Pediatrics to showcase the mental health challenges that LGBTQ youth face. The first study was done in California and Georgia, in which medical records of […]
Kaneenica Ninawe is a clinical psychologist working in King Edward’s Hospital in Mumbai since 2011. She recently completed her Phd in Health System Studies from TISS. This interview with Sukanya Sharma has been edited for clarity. Q: What kind of problems do patients come to you with? Largely people come with a diagnosis of […]
Kamna Chhibber, a clinical psychologist and regular contributor to The Health Collective, answers some of our questions. This interview is a quick follow-up to this article: Food, Nutrition, Well-Being and You Q: Does good nutrition prevent any mental illnesses? Having the right nutrition can aid in having overall good health and well-being which enhances our resilience […]
By Sukanya Sharma You are what you eat… is increasingly you are how you eat. Many of us have a conflicted relationship with food — some of us “eat our feelings”, some of us are very mindful of what we’re putting into our bodies, and some of us struggle with disordered eating. It should come […]
by Anonymous There’s too much noise inside my head. Constant. Cluttered. Cacophonous. Two years ago was the first time someone I knew professionally (who was also a therapist) told me that I was probably undergoing depression, I don’t want to use the term diagnosed because it makes me feel like death for me is […]
By Alice Robertson Steady, consistent progress: That seems like a simplistic explanation of how people with clean homes keep them so tidy, but it’s a good way to describe a lifestyle choice that makes an enormous difference. Like it or not, all those habits your mother tried to drum into you all those years ago really […]
By Kamna Chhibber Therapy is a work in progress – a project if you may. And if you wish to succeed on your project you need to partner with the right people. In the case of therapy, it’s your therapist who needs to walk alongside you, holding you through sticky situations, guiding you and advising […]
By Sukanya Sharma Has anyone seen this show called “Love” on Netflix? The premise is pretty much what the title suggests — the show is about a couple trying to find love…emphasis on “trying”. I checked out the IMDB description, which reads, “A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations […]
By Dr Amit Sen Bullying I feel is hugely underestimated and a lot of people don’t quite understand what it means. Schools that say they don’t have bullying– and many schools say they don’t have any bullying in their schools — probably don’t understand what it (entails). Bullying is rampant, across cultures, across different age […]
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