Mental Health Education

Dementia is treated with care The carer is often a person who has known, loved and grown with the person diagnosed with dementia. While co-dependence is a part of any relationship, here, as the disease progresses, the dependence can get overwhelming. This blog is for you, the carer- to remind you that it’s okay to […]

“Boys don’t cry”, “Man Up, Be strong” is all that Aakash heard while growing up. With good intentions near and dear ones enforced a belief in him that showing one’s emotions is a sign of weakness. I am sure we all have heard these phrases being said rampantly to our young boys. In the society […]

Diabetes and myocardial infarction (a.k.a heart attack), have for long pestered humanity. The prevalence is magnanimous and the implications, insurmountable. People are well aware of the consequences of ignoring these demons, yet the awareness is enough to boost encouragement. Another entity though, major depressive disorder a.k.a depression, with implications of similar magnitude, is rarely pondered […]

“Mirror, Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?” As a child, I never found it odd that a magic mirror, mounted on a wall, could tell the ultimate truth to the Evil Queen about the most beautiful person in their land. My younger self almost felt bad for the enslaved mirror […]

World Health Day in 2017 was themed “Depression – Let’s talk!”. Why was there a need to have an exclusive theme for this? Topics of Mental Health remains a taboo in our society and it’s high time we break the stigma associated with it. I was reading some tweets and watching some videos on depression […]