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Depression
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A poem on incarceration by Jhilmil Breckenridge If you stare out of a barred window across  A bleak garden some September morning If the neem tree in the garden reminds you of home Vast, old, timeless If you remember playing under a neem tree…
'I Felt Empty And Directionless', Says Deepika Padukone on Her Battle With Depression
36% of Indians suffer from depression according to WHO. 100,000 people commit suicide every year.  Deepika, her mother Ujjala, and her doctors Dr. Anna Chandy and Dr. Shyam talk about it, about the need for family support, the need to talk…
My friend's tragic run of depression
By Dirk de Korne for the Straits Times. The writer is a Dutch health scientist working in Singapore. -  It's time to remove the stigma attached to mental disorders - they are illnesses, not character flaws. He and his wife made us feel at…
Deepika Padukone on Depression : It was a struggle to wake up
Did you know that as recent as last year, Deepika Padukone was struggling with anxiety and depression, at a time when she was establishing her credentials as one of Bollywood's most sought after actors. She bares her heart for the first time about…