Conventional narratives around mental health have not been effective in reaching out to the people who require help and in building up a well-informed discourse about the subject among the general public. The advent of art and social media can help in changing the situation.
Category: awareness
Pondering Suicide
Upon the arrival and the chugging along of September, I found myself steeped within the conversation of Suicide Prevention Awareness as a result of 10th September being a crucial day for awareness, and the month providing spaces for discussion. With this was also the arrival of the bombardment of the statistics of people who have […]
Dark Humor, Satire, and The Therapy Room
When I meet my clients in the therapy room, I notice the more time I spend with them the funnier they allow themselves to be in my presence. On our first meeting, I generally meet nervous people on the couch or through the screen. They are often afraid of meeting judgment. Most likely because they […]
Who Can Come for Therapy and Why
We all have an idea of therapy clients. It’s a picture of distressed, breaking down adults, emotionally polarized, rebellious adolescents, and nervous/hard to control/withdrawn children. In all these descriptions, we picture these human profiles going through the extremes, don’t we? Although, therapy and counseling are most definitely very welcoming and nurturing spaces for people in […]
The Therapy Room Offers…
For many of us the therapy room is a mysterious place. People who go in, almost certainly, come out slightly altered from when they stepped into the room; and like children outside a locked door we wonder, probably with curiosity, apprehension or fear, what happens in there. This article hopes to demystify the therapy room. […]