“I want my parents to understand that mental health is as important as physical health and that taking your child to a therapist/counsellor is completely okay, and not a taboo. Taking your child for mental help doesn’t make her/him pagal or crazy.” says a teen.

A good, stable mental health is quite like maintaining one’s physical health – it is not just the absence of disease, but overall fitness.

Syed Sehrish Asgar, the only woman Deputy Commissioner in Kashmir valley has taken steps to bring about a change in the lives of young girls. She aims to bring girls who have dropped out for concerns of personal hygiene back to school.

Mariah Carey revealed in a recent interview to People’s Magazine that she has been suffering from Bipolar Disorder for 17 years. “I didn’t want to believe it,” she says while revealing that the diagnosis came in 2001, after she was hospitalised for a physical and mental breakdown. Since then she has lived in a constant fear […]

Skimming through various news sources to find something interesting to blog, I found this- “To be happier, women should try giving up on being good” in The Guardian. I skipped a heartbeat with the very sense of the headline. Being a teen, working through various things and on being constantly policed to “be good”, this […]