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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From Torment To Fulfillment
Bipolar Disorder had rudely, uninvited, walked into and disrupted my life. How did I get myself out of the deep morass that I had found myself in? To be honest, in the initial years there seemed to be no hope…
