Depression
"It Is Nice To Be Heard In A Non-judgemental Way"
Read the first person account of two suicide attempt survivors. We bring you these details especially to draw your attention to the fact that many suicides can be stopped and prevented by just a small quantum of compassion and consideration shown by…
How I Survived Severe Depression
Shubhrata Prakash, an officer with the Indian Revenue Service currently on sabbatical in Bangkok, went through a very long episode of depression. At the end, she was inspired to write a book The D Word: A Survivor’s Guide to Depression that not only…
Myriad Dimensions of Suicide
World Suicide Prevention Week 2016 A suicide story has various dimensions: there are those who think of committing it all the time, there are those who have tried and survived, and then there are those who have gone ahead and taken their own lives,…
Life is worth living
Five failed relationships and an elaborate suicide plan later, Thomas Heng finds out that life is worth living after all! Clinical Depression led him to almost jump off a building, further thoughts of which were thwarted by prolonged counselling…
Surviving Suicides
World Suicide Prevention Day 2016 Yuna Angell realises, after several attempts at suicide, that life is too sacred to be lost like this. She advises people with suicidal tendencies to reach out for help in times of desperation, because everyone…
Ma you are the rock, the support, the best,
Happy Mother's Day 2016 This Mother's Day we asked a few of our contributors, to share a Mother's Day wish. They shared poems, beautiful thoughts for their mothers who have been their caregivers and their stength in their journey. We look forward to…
Waiting to Belong
Forlorn and aching I write... Of a lost heart waiting to belong... Waiting to Belong I wake up thanking God for another day, Another day to look out at the dancing trees to the hum of the breeze, To raise my face to the warm kiss of the Sun, To…
Accept Yourself
By Vedika Aum, an ongoing survivor of depression Just let the light in... Don't block it Don't hide from it Don't look through it with unseeing eyes Don't shut it out Don't run from it Don't turn your back to it Don't create illusions nor excuses to…
