This was Bipolar India’s milestone 10th year of World Bipolar Day National Conferences in Mumbai! And this time too, it was a coming together of people with lived experience, family caregivers and those from the psychology background, all keen to…
World Bipolar Day National Conference 2024
It is around the corner and with it, an occasion for our pan India community to come together yet again! Each year, World Bipolar Day is celebrated worldwide on the 30th of March, to mark the birth anniversary of Vincent…
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Creativity As Selfcare For The Helping Professional
Fenichel, a psychoanalyst said, “the patient’s wish to be cured by a magician may be equalled by the therapist’s wish to be a magician”. People in the helping profession are often expected to be such magicians, immune to the kind…
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How Does Your Psychotherapist Help You With Depression?
“Suppression of depression is not good. Expression is always good. If depressed, share your feelings with others, it will make you feel better,” was PM Modi’s address to the nation prior to World Health Day. The passing of the Mental…
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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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When The Procrastination Gorilla Had Me Pinned To The Wall
Morning time is meditation time. So there I was, sitting on my low cane chair, back to the wall. I took in the view from my bedroom window- a panoramic view extending to miles ahead. The tall trees nearby contrasted…
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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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What Does An Outsider Think About Bipolar? A Unique Perspective.
Bipolar Disorder, mental illness – these words reverberate a social stigma – an unjust one, and one which I hope, will someday evaporate. And I feel it is important to stand up and claim the illness, to say, “Yes, I have bipolar…
