World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on 10th October, 2021. This year, the theme was “Mental health in an Unequal World”. We saw many organizations and people posting content stressing on the importance of mental health, but in less than two weeks, everyone is silent again. Once again, even this year, the fact that mental health matters is reduced to being just a trendy hashtag.
The other day when I was watching Masterchef Australia, one of the contestants, Brent Draper, chose to quit due to mental health concerns. Later, he posted on Instagram about how proud he was of this step and how he wanted to set an example for his son. ...
In 2016, when I took a leap of faith and began my private practice, I was plagued with doubt and thoughts like "Will I ever get a client?", "Was I stupid to leave a full-time job?", "Will I ever have a full-fledged practice?" were pretty common-place. ...
This is 2020. Today, the youth are definitely more "woke" than the previous generation - a term which simply means that they are more aware and active about movements and issues related to social and racial injustice - and more and more people are questi ...
"If you were to die today, what would you want written on your epitaph?" I must admit that the first time I was asked this question, I was quite startled. I am 30 old, perfectly hale and hearty and I have many years to go before I can even think of dy ...
Happy endings need not exist just in fairy-tales. Fairy-tales have the beauty of always giving one a simpler, newer perspective of things, a transformation of ideology from “I wish” to “I will” and a belief in trust, kindness, goodness, hope and love.
There are times when the world we inhabit seems to be quite a scary place. We are, sometimes, presented with a continuous streak of horrible days that just seem to get from bad to worse. There are some days where we can’t find even one reason to smile. I ...
I have read the Harry Potter series countless number of times, and each time I revisit it, I feel like I have stumbled upon a new gem of wisdom. When I was in college, a classmate of mine told me that reading Harry Potter helped her come to terms with he ...
When I was in college and told people that I am studying Psychology, almost everyone assumed that my life is a breeze because "Psychology is such an interesting subject" and no one can get bored learning things about the "mind" and the "soul". At that ti ...
I would have become a millionaire by now had I received a penny every time someone asked me the question, "Tell me what I am thinking?" the moment they found that I am a student of Psychology. Being a student of Psychology or a psychologist, by professio ...
