Learning to Grieve: Through the Tunnel, with Barthes’ Mourning Diary
By Arpita Das Joan Didion writes that grieving is an experience, but mourning is work, and she could not have
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YOUR STORIES
Your Stories: What It’s Like to Deal With an Anxiety Disorder
What does it feel like to have Anxiety? Is it any easier to talk to friends and loved ones about
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Game On: How Playing Video Games Helped My Mental Health
By Ananya Borgohain While Covid-19 and the lockdowns have made the world a smaller place, they have also reduced it
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Mental Health and Music: Listen to the Song Andhera
Andhera is quite a beautiful, evocative song about a struggle with mental illness; as we know, it’s also brave to
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Learning to Grieve with Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
By Arpita Das Grief lives in the body, someone said. After my father’s death I began to understand what that
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Covid-19 and You: Grief, Mental Health and Julian Barnes’ Nothing to Be Frightened Of
By Arpita Das We are being told by mental health practitioners and armchair experts time and again as the pandemic
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How the Light Gets In: Attending to our Anxiety about COVID-19
This is the second part of a two-part series. Do Read Part One on Anxiety, Fear and the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Your Stories: What Helped Me During Depression
By Ishita Mehra Views expressed are personal. The Health Collective cannot substitute for expert advice from a trained mental
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Your Stories: How I’ve Lived with Depression, Panic Attacks and Anxiety Disorder
By Girish Iyer This is a story of a 12-year-old boy who was blessed to have been born to into
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Your Stories: An Existential Crisis or Cause for Concern?
By @gulzaarzindagi I was on vacation at one of the most beautiful places on Earth, that is Kerala, back in
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