To maintain joie de vivre can be difficult when there are limited opportunities to socialise with people who can lift one’s spirits or to attend cultural or sports events that break up the monot...

It was her encounter with little kids at her therapist’s clinic that led her to realise that there is no age to this thing. “Just like we are teaching our kids about Covid-19 and teaching ...

I am feeling really scared. What if the pandemic never ends and we have to be confined to the house and study from home year after year? My career is really important to me — my parents have tak...

"I am depressed. I have been for more than four years now. I have been to a doctor and I am clinically depressed. I am doing much better now,” she said. "For over a year now, I wanted...

It is what it is, was how Rashid responded to my attempt to empathise with his current predicaments. The magnitude of adversities which the 21-year-old was facing was despairing. I had known Rashid fr...

We are almost in the last quarter of 2020, a year that has had a tremendous impact on every individual around the globe —  physically, emotionally and mentally. Amidst the pandemic we all h...

Every second youth in 112 countries, including India, has been possibly subjected to anxiety and stress while one in six youths has probably been affected by depression because of an uncertain career ...

With Covid cases shooting up in Jharkhand, laughter could well be an antidote for dealing with Covid-related stress and panic, or so feels 68-year-old Y V Rajshekhar, who runs the Jamshedpur Laughter ...

A short film highlighting depression and suicide, directed by a mass communication student with roots in Bengal and studying in this Jharkhand city, has been selected for the All American High School ...

I’ve been having suicidal thoughts periodically over many years. I no longer go up to my terrace. I feel overwhelmed pretty much all the time and there’s a feeling of tiredness that won&rs...