Although World Mental Health Day falls on October 10, our full day Workshop to mark WMHDay is slated on October 8, 2023 it being a Sunday. We at Bipolarindia have been advocating a holistic health approach to support recovery from…
Creativity: Window To Our Souls
What happens when a pool of incredibly creative talent expresses itself? There is a starburst of creativity to feast upon! Our Peer Support Community is just such a reservoir of talent. Thus, when we at BipolarIndia were invited by Bloggers…
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Importance of Stable Relationships in Mental Illness
We talk about diagnosis and treatment for those struggling with Mental Illness. The nature of the affliction affects the hapless person on even more fronts: earning a living and at a more personal level, it hits the stability of his…
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Shift Of Focus From Illness To Wellness
Among the major streams of medicine, the practitioners of Allopathy, Homeopathy and Ayurveda often distrust the ‘rival’ streams. What actually works differs from person to person. My acute asthma was getting out of control and I had tried virtually every…
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How Happy Are You?
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…
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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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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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Believe you can. I did, am glad I did!
I had created a Slideshare Presentation on the Mind, Brain, Soul aspects of Bipolar healing. A Bipolar needs treatment by a Psychiatrist and to follow the medical regimen as prescribed by him. This helps bring the monster of the illness under…
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From Torment To Fulfillment
I have already discussed in a previous post about the attitude and discipline one needs to adopt in order to overcome the menace Bipolar poses. How did I get myself out of the deep morass? To be honest in the initial…
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Learn to break free
Since the past few weeks I had felt there was something amiss in my life. Despite the recovery I had made from my long years of depression, it was a feeling I could not place a finger on. My progress…
