Dealing with Suicide Loss: A Daughter’s Memoir
Trigger warning: #Suicide
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Mental health and books
Why We Need More Conversation and Sunlight Around Mental Health
By Chintan Girish Modi Aparna Piramal Raje is a columnist, author, and teacher who lives with bipolarity. Her new book Chemical
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Young Voices: Shreya Ramachandran and The Worlds Within You
Following is an e-interview with debut novelist Shreya Ramachandran, author of The Worlds Within You. Do read a short excerpt
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Out Now: Life Interrupted, Understanding India’s Suicide Crisis
This book aims to present evidence-based strategies to tackle suicide, using interviews, case studies, and conversations that lay readers can make sense of, while proposing an outline of steps that policy makers, journalists and key stakeholder groups can collaborate on to provide better solutions and save precious lives in India.
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Three Years Of Pandemic Living: The Kids Are Not Alright
There are many differences in how distress shows up in children, and nowhere more perhaps than this pandemic. Learn more in this excerpt from psychologist Nupur Paiva Dhngra’s book In Love and Rage
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Alone in the Crowd: Here’s What You Need to Know about Urban Loneliness
Alone in the Crowd: Overcoming Loneliness of Urban Living is a new book out by Dr Samir Parikh and Kamna
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It’s Not Just the Pandemic: Understanding Urban Loneliness
In a city high-rise, sitting in the balcony on the 25th floor, sipping tea, you look out into the horizon,
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From the Asylum to the Mental Hospital: Tracing India’s Journey
Author Daman Singh set out on an ambitious quest to research and understand India’s journey in the mental healthcare space — from the ‘lunatic asylums’ of the 18th century, to the emergence of a more scientific and humane approach in the early 20th century.
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Can Understanding Impermanence Help us Cope with Life?
With Indians daily battling stigma and many misconceptions when it comes to Mental Health, Gayatri Jayaraman shares some of what she believes to be key to a mind-spirit-body practice, what meditation has to do with it, and why understanding and accepting impermanence and change may be critical to making peace with our day to day life.
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Anitya: Understanding Impermanence and Change in a Post-Pandemic World
By Gayatri Jayaraman The practice of embracing change happens in the face of those who make a virtue of its
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