As I walked through the mall, my mind was focused on only one thing; their eyes. Am I looking okay today? Is my dress unclean? What if my hair doesn’t seem okay? Is there something on my face? What if somebody came to me and asked me something? Oh my God, they all are watching […]
How do you know if you have OCD? Well, for starters you’ll know it’s not a joke! I began worrying about things being dirty. Pens and markers especially — if a classmate borrowed them, I’d bring them home to wash, or soak them in hand sanitizer. Eventually, it became easier to simply throw them away. At my […]
We all have that one friend that makes us question ourselves, why are we even friends with this person? Their energy uplifts our mood, their presence brightens the room and their sarcasm tickles our funny bone, their beauty sooths our… I’m pretty sure by now y’all can see that person’s face in your head, but […]
My hands clenched into fists. The scarlet red blood that was roaring like a fierce lion came surging through my veins. My bloodshot eyes came bulging out of the eye sockets and my teeth shut close together to such an extent that they started grinding each other. I was on the verge of a severe […]
What is stress? Is it the feeling that you get when you have an exam and you start studying a day before, dividing your time equally between chapters but somehow you end up wasting an hour or two watching videos of cute animals doing silly things, when you realize you don’t have enough time left […]
It all started when I was a ten year old little girl, the time when I hardly understood what is life? What does it mean to live? My days used to start early and were completely normal, full of joy, just like any other happy go lucky kid until I began worrying about little things; […]
I looked at my wrist and saw my artery thrashing violently as if it wanted to escape my body that was full of despair. I could hear the blood gushing loudly inside it, fighting to break the entrapment of my depressing body to flow freely in the outer world. It was impossible to resist the […]
The room was dark, with shafts of sunlight peeking through the curtain. I lived to see another day? I thought to myself as I slowly lost my consciousness. I was wrong…” Last night, I came home to an empty apartment. As I chose to start a new chapter of my life, I decided to let go […]
Ever saw someone struggling through life? I did. When I figured out something was wrong, it was too late. It consumed me, I was devastated. I was at the verge of losing a close friend to suicide. I know, it’s hard to figure out when someone’s going through mental health crisis because when you ask […]
In today’s world, where the importance of mental health is highlighted, we also see an increase in the suicide rates across the world. According to a report by World Health Organization (WHO), a person loses his or her life every 40 seconds and by 2020 it is estimated to drop to 20 seconds. We see […]