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Guest Contributors Mental Health Your Stories 

Your Stories: Understanding Therapy

April 9, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective getting help, Understanding Therapy, YOUR STORIES

‘Dialogue With A Therapist’ shared by Pearl Therapist: What does your inner voice tell you? Me: To go travelling (Giggles) Therapist: Why are you

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Ask the Experts Mental Health Ratna Golaknath 

Ten Myths About Child Abuse and Boys

April 2, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective abuse, ask the experts, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, child sexual abuse, getting help, Myths and Facts, Ratna Golaknath

This is the second of a two-part series.  Read Part I of this piece here.  Part II deals with myths on child

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Ask the Experts Mental Health Varkha Chulani 

Ask the Experts: Is Pseudoscience Setting You Back?

March 25, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective Emotional Health, getting help, Understanding mental health

By Varkha Chulani Science is the ability to deal with facts, rather than what someone says about people, situations or

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Guest Contributors Voices Your Stories 

Atticus…on Anxiety

March 24, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective anxiety, getting help, Understanding mental health

We’re talking anxiety … and coping. (With thanks to @Atti_cus for sharing so openly and honestly.)   I struggle with

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Guest Contributors Your Stories 

Your Stories: More Than Just the Blues — Life With Post-Partum Depression

March 13, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective getting help, post partum depression, PPD, Understanding mental health, YOUR STORIES

By Prerna Uppal It’s been more than two years since my son was born, but the first time I shared

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Guest Contributors Mental Health Your Stories 

Your Stories: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Depression

March 7, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective CBT, D is for Depression, Depression, getting help, Shubhrata Prakash, Understanding mental health, Understanding Therapy

By Shubhrata Prakash My first experience of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) was a brief but promising one. When I was

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Ask the Experts Mental Health Varkha Chulani 

Ask the Experts: Is Therapy for Everyone?

February 23, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective ask the experts, getting help, Myths and Facts, Understanding Therapy

By Varkha Chulani First of all let’s break the myth that only mentally ill people need therapy. First of all

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Guest Contributors Mental Health Voices Your Stories 

Your Stories: A Shrink Put Me Off Therapy

February 19, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective getting help, Understanding Therapy, YOUR STORIES

By Anonymous I have a very small thing to share … I faced a lot of violence as a child.

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Mental Health Voices Your Stories 

Our Stories: Self-Harm (Trigger Warning)

February 1, 2017May 6, 2018 Health Collective getting help, healing, Self Harm, YOUR STORIES

Editor’s Note: It’s hard enough to confront some of the darkest moments of your life, harder still to attempt to

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Guest Contributors Mental Health Your Stories 

Your Stories: Feat. a SnapRant on Depression

November 3, 2016May 6, 2018 Health Collective Depression, getting help, Koval Bhatia, Understanding mental health

Hi friends, hope you’ve survived the apocalypse that is post-Diwali pollution. (Those of you outside of Delhi, save yourselves!) So

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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.