Before going further with reading this article, I want the readers to do a small activity. Look around you, observe the people around you. Various objects that are around you, their colour, their shape, the noises around you etc. Once you have done that, I want the readers to close their eyes and recollect everything that you have observed. Now open your eyes. What if I now tell you that all of this is an illusion. None of this exists, even this article is just an imagination

Bipolar disorder, formerly known as Manic Depression, is a mood disorder characterized by unusual shifts in mood, activity and energy. Individuals with this disorder experience alternating episodes of emotional highs (mania/hypomania) and lows (depression). Mania is a state in which individuals experience extreme pleasure, bursts of energy, hyperactivity. They may require little sleep, develop grandiose plans, speak erratically and even incoherently (flight of ideas). Hypoman

Hello. My name is Selena. I am the President of the student body council….a drummer...a singer, a guitarist, a violin player, a physicist, a psychology student, a trekker, a dancer, a painter, a reader, a columnist in the local newspaper, a part-time DJ, a theatre actor, a set designer, a bird watcher, a local mechanic, an editor, a tutor….and also a student consultant. I am Selena and I have ADHD. I was first diagnosed with ADHD i.e Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder w

It was Eating Disorders awareness week in some parts of the world recently, from 26th February to 4 March. It only makes sense that I speak about myself on such an occasion, a little late but I think it’s allowed, right? I was diagnosed with Binge-Eating Disorder and Anorexia Nervosa when I was 20 years old. I experienced symptoms when I was 18 when I first started going to college. I would often find myself eating heaps of food, for a long time. I don’t remember feeling hung

I remember, once when I was a child, I was playing with my brother and a few of his friends and the game of ball got so aggressive that one of my brother’s friends shoved me on the ground. My left knee was heavily bruised and bruised. I started crying, no bawling actually. Not only because my knee was hurting, but more than that because I felt an imbalance. I felt like there was a void, numbness on the right knee. I felt an inexplicably strong need to restore this balance. So

There are a few things that I thought were scary. Death, separation, losing my job etc. But that changed about 5 years ago when I got one of the most devastating news of my life. That news was delivered to me in the psychiatry ward of the hospital in the City Hospital, where the doctor told me that my mother was diagnosed with Dementia or what is known now as Major Neurocognitive Disorder. The psychiatrist told me and my father that she is “slipping by the day” and honestly,