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Relationships: It’s Not Always Simple
Ask the Experts Events 

Relationships: It’s Not Always Simple

May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 Health Collective
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Ask the Experts Guest Contributors 

How to Help Someone with Depression (Even When They Push You Away)

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 Health Collective
WMHD 2024
Ask the Experts TOP VIDEOS Videos 

World Mental Health Day 2024: How to Tackle Mental Health in the Workplace—Insights from Experts

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Health Collective
It’s a Myth that Mental Illness Means Violence (Hindi Explainer)
Ask the Experts Hindi Kamna Chhibber Videos 

It’s a Myth that Mental Illness Means Violence (Hindi Explainer)

August 13, 2023 Health Collective
What does Mental Health Mean to You?
Videos Voices Your Stories 

What does Mental Health Mean to You?

June 14, 2023June 14, 2023 Health Collective
Tackling Taboo and Stigma, One Mental Health Convo at a Time
TOP VIDEOS Videos Voices 

Tackling Taboo and Stigma, One Mental Health Convo at a Time

April 28, 2023April 26, 2023 Health Collective

Articles

Out of Her Mind: How Society Fails Women’s Mental Health – A Review
Articles TOP STORIES 

Out of Her Mind: How Society Fails Women’s Mental Health – A Review

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 Health Collective

By Asma G Content warning: The book reviewed here contains mentions of self-harm, suicide, sexual abuse, trauma and mental illness.

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Movie or TV Shows
Articles Entertainment 

Therapists Have Problems Too—Apple TV+’s Shrinking Delivers Laughs with a Side of Chaos

March 9, 2025March 9, 2025 Health Collective
Wellness Carnival Pic
Articles Events Wellness 

Movement as Medicine: Wellness Carnival Aims to Heal Mind, Body and Soul

March 4, 2025 Health Collective
Book Excerpt: The Other Sister by Amrita Tripathi
Amrita Tripathi Articles 

Book Excerpt: The Other Sister by Amrita Tripathi

February 11, 2025March 21, 2025 Health Collective
Book Review: Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible
Articles FEATURED 

Book Review: Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Health Collective

Comics for Mental Health

Affirmations on the Health Collective
Art Comics for Mental Health 

I Am Worthy: An Affirmation for the Year

May 24, 2023May 21, 2023 Health Collective

By Adwaita Das Art by Adwaita Das for The Health Collective I am worthy of being loved.I am worthy of

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Art Comics for Mental Health Solo 

Know Your Rights: Red Flags When it Comes to Therapy

May 21, 2023May 21, 2023 Health Collective
Health Collective Affirmations Title page
Affirmations Art Comics for Mental Health Wellness 

An Affirmation for the New Year: I Let Me Be Me

January 20, 2023February 26, 2023 Health Collective
Affirmations on the Health Collective
Affirmations Art Comics for Mental Health 

End of the Year Vibes: I Allow Myself to Rest

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Health Collective

Your Stories

Four-Legged Love: How My Basset Hounds Help Ease my Depression
Guest Contributors Your Stories 

Four-Legged Love: How My Basset Hounds Help Ease my Depression

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 Health Collective

Discovering the Unseen Emotional Support of Pets in Mental Health Journeys By Sumana Bhoothalingam It has been said many times,

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Youth Voices: Adulting 101
TOP STORIES Voices Your Stories 

Youth Voices: Adulting 101

May 1, 2024May 1, 2024 Health Collective
Youth Voices: ‘Bliss Sick’
Voices Your Stories 

Youth Voices: ‘Bliss Sick’

April 14, 2024April 15, 2024 Health Collective
Mental Health Events poster
Amrita Tripathi Events Your Stories 

Mental Health Events (Virtual): Let’s Talk Storytelling

October 4, 2023October 4, 2023 Health Collective

Ask The Experts

Relationships: It’s Not Always Simple
Ask the Experts Events 

Relationships: It’s Not Always Simple

May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 Health Collective

By Medha Gupta “Am I the only one who feels this way about their partner/parents? Does it happen to others?”

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Photo from Unsplash
Ask the Experts Guest Contributors 

How to Help Someone with Depression (Even When They Push You Away)

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 Health Collective
WMHD 2024
Ask the Experts TOP VIDEOS Videos 

World Mental Health Day 2024: How to Tackle Mental Health in the Workplace—Insights from Experts

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Health Collective
#SayAgain Podcast
Amrita Tripathi Ask the Experts 

#SayAgain Podcast

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 Health Collective

Where to get help: A city-wise list

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Suicide Helplines

  • For India: suicide helplines 
  • For Emails/ Numbers of Psychologists and Psychiatrists across India, check our Contacts page (Work in progress)

Mental Health Resources

  • The World Health Organization’s Fact Sheet on Depression 
  • The WHO guidelines on Preventing Suicide: Media Resource
  • The Samaritans Media Guidelines on Reporting About Suicide
  • National Crime Records Bureau report on Suicides in India
  • Mental HealthCare Act 2017
  • The National Mental Health Survey
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The Health Collective is not in the business of nor intends to provide counselling service. The professionals, the website of the professionals and helpline numbers listed on the The Health Collective are not employed, associated or endorsed by The Health Collective. The professionals and the organisations behind the listed websites and helpline numbers, on The Health Collective website, are independent third parties and there is no relationship of principal-agent, employer-employee, partnership of any nature with The Health Collective. The Health Collective does not make any recommendation or guarantee service or quality of any professional or helpline number or website listed herein. The Health Collective does not make any representations, warranties or guarantees as to, and is in no manner responsible for, the services provided by the professionals or their websites or the helpline services. The stories and comics set out by The Health Collective are intended purely for reference purposes. Advice or stories set out herein are by no means intended to malign or defame any person, organisation, caste or community. Advice or stories set out herein are views of the concerned author only, The Health Collective does not claim copyright or endorse or recommend or represent on veracity of the advice contained in the articles or stories (including the comics) on this website. Additionally, the articles and stories set out herein should not in any manner be considered as substitute for professional help. All experiences are personal, hence advice and suggestions contained in the articles and stories may not apply to a reader’s specific facts or situations, and it is recommended that professional help is sought for such matters. The Health Collective disclaims all liability of all nature arising out of reliance placed on the advice set out in the articles and stories or arising out of meetings with professionals or calls with the professionals or helpline numbers mentioned on the website of The Health Collective.