When we talk of healing from mental illness (or any other devastating illness), what is our main motive? Recovery from the clutches of the illness or reclaiming the ability to live life fully? A person who wants to continue evolving, uses…
How Happy Are You?
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
Tread carefully, for this is uncharted territory. Indeed, managing Bipolar Disorder, while eminently doable, remains a challenge, as would have been apparent from my article on World Mental Health Day. It is a long, uphill climb which few have the…
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How Did I Regain My Lost Creativity?
How I got back my lost creativity through Meditation I was a very creative person in my childhood and wrote both poetry and prose. At the tender age of 14, my poetry was published in national Hindi newspapers and the…
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Mental Health Awareness: India Scan
If you were told, “Today is World Mental Health Day” What’s That?” You might ask. Yes, that is the kind of indifference this serious issue is treated with in these parts of the world. Whereas we have reams of articles…
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Love, Hope and Bipolar
A friend of mine, Deepak, recently sought my advice. He now wishes to marry and settle down. So what’s the big deal, you’d say. Don’t thousands and thousands of Indians marry every month (maybe every week)? That’s where the catch is. Although…
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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…
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Into The Sun
The dark is so cozy Hides me from prying eyes I am in my own world While the world speeds by No don’t bother about me I’m probably not worth your time Then she says in a whisper Come, come…
