It beggars belief that India lost more lives to suicide in 2020 than to Covid-19. Yet this is exactly what the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau reveal. Suicides in India increased by...

During normal times, 15-20 per cent of the population suffers either from anxiety or a combination of anxiety and depression. The last two years have changed everyone’s lives —the Covid-19...

My father and uncle died of heart attacks. I run for half an hour a day, but I have a sedentary desk job. It is good that you exercise regularly. Try to run or jog 4km a day. Do not rely on this alon...

Psychiatrists from the Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP) and techies from the computer science department of the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT)-Mesra have jointly developed a technology that ...

Before Covid struck, Samar Banerjee, 78, would go out for a walk every morning and spend hours chatting with friends sitting on benches on the lawn of his housing complex. For more than a year, he ha...

• Control use of media • Avoid information overload • Don’t indulge in or spread fake news • Triple boost (nutrition/sleep/exercise) • Yoga/meditation/walking &bull...

I asked thousands of New York Times readers to share how they are feeling right now. The most common answers revealed the mixed feelings of the past 14 months: unsettled, anxious, overwhelmed, frazzle...

Learn a lesson Sir — The observation made by the Delhi High Court while granting bail to three student activists that the State is blurring the line between the constitutionally guaranteed &lsq...

My dad stays so silent of late. He has stopped going to the club, stopped gardening — his favourite activity — and rarely speaks...” “Do not worry, that is just age. It is the...

India captain Virat Kohli has revealed that he battled depression during a harrowing tour of England in 2014 where he felt like the “loneliest guy in the world” after a string of failures ...