‘Health is Wealth’ it is said and rightly so. For, if you are enjoying good health (physical as well as mental), you have the capability to chase your dreams with all the energy that you require. Good body health is…
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Learning From Peer Support Meets
With the conclusion of our 3rd Peer Support Meet on the 7th of Feb, we are getting to know each other better. Those afflicted with bipolar finally have an offline community to interact with, to lighten their burdens. So many…
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Let’s Meet Again!
The biggest burden of Mental Illness is Stigma and isolation. The consequence is loss of self esteem and trust in one’s abilities to the extent that one withdraws from society. The family also suffers in silence. Human beings are not…
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Peer Support Group~ Let’s Meet Again!
Shout Out For Our 2nd PEER SUPPORT MEET~ Sunday, 10th of January, 2016 After the highly satisfying 1st Peer Support Meet held in November 2015, here comes the follow up act. Conveniently it is again being held on a Sunday…
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Coping With Depression
I have had to brave many low phases during my journey as a Bipolar II, some of them lasting months, the worst of them stretching for years without mercy. I would like to share what really works to help one break…
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Tiny ‘positive engines’ bound towards rewarding ‘destinations’!
While studying for an elementary course on “Positive Psychology” from Coursera, I was prompted to think how the study in around negative emotions is so much more that the positive ones. Varied theories around negative emotions have filled up large…
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Takeaways From First Peer Support Meet
It was the 22nd of November and five of us met at a mere one day notice at a coffee shop in Mumbai. So, on a Sunday morning, Bipolar India’s Offline initiative rolled off for the first time. What a…
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Our 1st Peer Support Meet
This Online Community, launched on May 23, 2013, is unique in the sense that it is the very first such website for Bipolars and Depression afflicted in India. The response, feedback and interaction has been gratifying~ over One Million visits…
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Bipolar Disorder: 10 Steps on the Road to Recovery
Managing Bipolar Disorder can be challenging. Is it doable? If we were to break it up in steps, how would the path unfold, from a layman’s perspective? The known enemy becomes easier to deal with than the unknown one. Only…
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And Then We Said, Let’s Walk Together
“As you grow older it is harder to have heroes, but is sort of necessary” -Ernest Hemingway When Jennifer Sertl began coaching me over skype some eighteen months ago, I wasn’t aware of her personal background or why she was so…
