Solo’s Sadventures: Poetry, Disillusionment and the Importance of Getting Help
(Trigger Warning: Self harm, suicidal ideation) Editor’s Note: If you or anyone you know ever feels like things are
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Gaslighting: Getting Help and Healing
By Scherezade Siobhan This is Part 2 of a Series on Gaslighting. Read Part One, GASLIGHTING: RED FLAGS The logical
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How to Help Someone with Depression (Even When They Push You Away)
Have you ever tried helping someone with depression, only to encounter reluctance? It’s painful to see someone struggle, but is
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My Take: Great Books that Helped Me
Dear Readers, This time I have compiled a list of self-help books that have personally helped me over the years.
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Young Voices: Exam Stress is Getting Out of Hand and How to Cope
By Vera Povaiah The onset of summer means the end of exams – a time nearly everyone associates with immense
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Social Connection: Friendship and the Bonds that Help us Overcome
This pandemic may just have taught us to re-examine the things that matter, the relationships we take for granted, and how we go about building a support system in the first place
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Loneliness, Isolation, Burn-out: Why Covid-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers Need Their Own Helpline
While the entire country struggles with the ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s perhaps not surprising that front line healthcare
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Dial iCall for Help: How the TISS-Housed Helpline Delivers
iCALL is a psycho-social helpline run by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), that aims to offer counselling via
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Five Years in, Sheroes Helpline Aims for High Empathy, Deep Impact
Amrita Tripathi We spent some time this summer looking up stress and other helplines that are operational in India, and
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Suicide Prevention Day: Creating the Space to Seek Help
By Kamna Chhibber Speaking, talking and sharing are not always given space in society. Often we shy away from discussing
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