It's Ok To Talk

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We hope these stories will inspire you and more young people to come forward and share their own, helping to break down the stigma surrounding mental health.

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One Step Forward

Please reach out. Talk to someone. ...

March 31, 2019 • Diya Padmakumar • 18 • Chennai

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A Much Needed Rambling

We don't take mental health seriously because it's not a disease that's visible to the naked eye. ...

February 18, 2019 • Arundhati Ghosh • 22 • Delhi

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It is nobody’s fault

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! It did! I am stronger and more grateful to life. I now know the worth of my happiness. ...

February 15, 2019 • Ujwala Naidu • 20 • Guntur

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Joseph

Just as I turned, I noticed a young man wearing a red t-shirt, and carrying a garbage bag bursting through the door. He was bleeding from what I ...

October 30, 2018 • Nancy Beaudet • 27 • Red Deer

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Depression, it isn’t just your fight

I believe that people in positions of power, workplaces, families have a responsibility to care and to try to understand others without judgement ...

April 28, 2017 • Sudhamshu Mitra

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My experience with depression

I am going to talk about this past year of my life, I am going to describe it as well as I can and I'm going to hope that it makes some differenc ...

April 4, 2017 • Pavani Madhira • Hyderabad

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Of Deep Emotion and Deeper Realisation

While I eventually began realising that such acts were getting me nowhere, it didn’t relieve me of my depressive tendencies. I would often go thr ...

April 4, 2017 • Kabir David • New Delhi

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My struggle with mental illness

The more vulnerable I let myself be, the stronger I became. The more I talked, the more I felt a version of that validation that I had always sou ...

April 4, 2017 • AMAAYA DASGUPTA • New Delhi