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Mental Health Books

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Articles Wellness 

How to Fail by Elizabeth Day: A Raw, Relatable Look at Fertility, Feminism, and Failing Forward

May 14, 2025 Health Collective Asma G, Books, Elizabeth Day, Infertility, Mental health and books, Mental Health Books

By Asma G Content warning: The book contains mentions of fertility struggles including miscarriages. When I first considered reviewing How

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Articles TOP STORIES 

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

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 Health Collective Asma G, Books, Mental health and books, Mental Health Books

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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Amrita Tripathi Articles 

Book Excerpt: The Other Sister by Amrita Tripathi

February 11, 2025March 21, 2025 Health Collective Amrita Tripathi, Books, Mental health and books, Mental Health Books

Read an excerpt from The Other Sister / watch a short video of the excerpt and behind the scenes below

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Articles FEATURED 

Book Review: Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Health Collective Asma G, Books, Matt Haig, Mental health and books, Mental Health Books

By Asma G “Eating watermelon in the sun was such a wonderful feeling I wondered why I hadn’t spent more

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Articles FEATURED TOP STORIES 

Unpacking Love and Life: A Review of Red, Green, and Sometimes Beige

November 16, 2024March 21, 2025 Health Collective Asma G, Books, Mental health and books, Mental Health Books, Understanding Relationships

By Asma G “It feels like whiplash; for 20 years, my parents forbade me from dating and pushed me to

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Red, Green and Sometimes Beige: Excerpt from Kasturi Mahanta’s New Book on Healthy Relationships

October 17, 2024October 17, 2024 Health Collective Mental health and books, Mental Health Books

[The following is excerpted from Red, Green and Sometimes Beige: The Ins and Outs of a Healthy Relationship by Kasturi Mahanta,

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But What Will People Say? A Book Review

September 30, 2024December 12, 2024 Health Collective Asma G, Mental health and books, Mental Health Books

By Asma Title: But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures  “What will people

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Amrita Tripathi FEATURED Videos 

‘Teenagers are In One of the Most Vulnerable Periods’

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 Health Collective Amrita Tripathi, Dr Amit Sen, getting help, mental health, Mental Health Books, Young Mental Health

Amrita Tripathi Continuing our Mental Health Explainers (short videos), I share from our interview with Dr Amit Sen on one

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Mental Health Voices Your Stories 

Why We Need More Conversation and Sunlight Around Mental Health

August 27, 2022 Health Collective Chintan Girish Modi, Mental health and books, mental health and india, Mental Health Books, Understanding bipolar disorder, Understanding 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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Articles Mental Health 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Young: A Debut Novel

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 Health Collective Books, Mental Health Books, Shreya Ramachandran, Young Mental Health

The following is from The Worlds Within You by Shreya Ramachandran, excerpted with permission from Penguin Random House India. You

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