The entire month of June, 2018 was celebrated as pride month. It started with all cities across US and many around the globe celebrating and supporting the existence of LGBT community. It’s a tradition that goes back to the early…
SEXUAL ABUSE — FIGHT, FLIGHT, OR FREEZE?
Sexual abuse, defined as the infliction of sexual contact upon a person by forcible compulsion, can happen to men, women, non-binary, of any age and has become a common phenomenon. It especially goes unnoticed in case of close relationships like…
What is Empathy?
For years and years, people have talked about sympathy and being sympathetic. We all know what that is. Sympathy is generally used interchangeably with empathy. In lay man’s language, sympathy refers to having a feeling towards someone’s sorrow and so…
WHY DO WE NOT TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND ITS RELATED ISSUES IN INDIA?
Mental illness refers collectively to all diagnosable mental illnesses — health conditions involving significant changes in thinking, emotion and/or behaviour, distress and/or problems facing functioning in social, work or family activities. Mental disorders are usually defined by combination of how a person…
Follow Your Dreams
While people come and go, our dreams stay forever and it is these dreams that work as the pushing factor in our life. While we survive 10 years of school studying conventional subjects as per the curriculum and judging and…
EMOTIONAL ABUSE -UNDERSTAND IT TO FIGHT IT
Emotional abuse is a form of abuse, characterized by a person subjecting, or exposing, another person to behaviour that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. It can then take the form of either…
FROM DISTRESS TO DE-STRESS- EMOTIONAL HEALING IN TIMES OF STRESS
By its very nature, distress is “great pain, acute suffering and extreme misfortune.” It hijacks our ability to think straight and function adequately. This mainly happens because we shift to the “survival mode” where the basic aim of the body…
Just Be There. For Others and for Yourself.
What can I do for someone who’s depressed? JUST BE THERE. Multiple kinds of suffering exists in the world and have been talked about a numerous people, cures have been suggested, precautions have been taken, all this is about pre…
FIGHT AWAY THOSE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
Repetitive thoughts that focus on the negative are often called Automatic Negative Thoughts. They repeatedly make us believe the world is a dark scary place with little room for sunshine and happiness. Negative thoughts also sometimes make you believe things…