Understanding Psychiatry Part 1: Identifying the need for help
This is the first of a five part series – Understanding Psychiatry, where we speak with Dr Sucheta Tiwari, a psychiatry resident and public health expert.…
Loving a Parent with Mental Illness: Through Pinto’s Em & the Big Hoom
Can love be enough? This question lies at the heart of Em and the Big Hoom, a work of autobiographical fiction by Jerry Pinto. Set…
My depression & yours: Coping with kindness
Onward, Though Your Feet Be Stumbling ~ Anonymous I am healing. It has been three years of self-destroying, painful despair. Three years of terrifying mood-swings,…
Marked
I like scars. Hurt is inevitable; a rite of passage. It hunts us all. But I would not like to be anchored to my injuries, unable…
Depression: Numbing, boring, and a lot of nothingness
Depression takes away the ability to live in denial about anything. You can’t put things ‘out of your mind’. You can’t, no matter how hard…
Dealing with loss: Healing the brokenness within
Most of us have experienced the loss of a loved one – to death, to betrayal, to circumstances, to distances – and more often than…
Being a Soul Warrior: Journeying inward to re-grow my lost personhood
Few can imagine the trauma that violence inflicted by another human being can unleash. The thing that shatters us is not pain but the entire…
Beyond These Walls: Creating a Theatre Stage in a Therapy Room
“Theatre is the capacity to observe in action and experiment from within yourself and without.”- Augusto Boal When play, body movement and voice all come…