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Health Calling: Protect Your Mental Well-Being
The year 2020 has been nothing but cruel to the world, the disaster is escalating every day. In this scenario where everything gets negative, this blog is about finding ways to stay mentally stable. A crisis isn’t a crisis unless it has taken the maximum from you. One in today is the havoc of the Corona Virus. It’s nowhere expected to stay in the best state of your mind, when the whole world is compromising every minute. It ought to get negative thoughts while looking for something good to happen, as there are less of positive outcomes than negative ones at this time. The pandemic has...
The apocalyptic phase
The virus that has by now spiralled the most unexpected places far from its origin, the time when death toll made the headlines; little did we imagine this tiny town would be a victim of this pandemic too. The cases started rising at the time when lockdown was lifted and I was scared for my dad as he had to go to office everyday due to emergency service. The time becomes more crucial and terrifying when we see our loved ones in problems. To my utmost horror this happened to my family. Within a month the cases started rising. And my dad started showing mild symptoms. I still didn't think that...
World AIDS Day: How The Stigma Still Prevails
HIV/AIDS continues to be a significant global health issue, having claimed over 32 million lives so far. 38 million people in the world were living with HIV at the end of 2019. It's been about 50 years we've known about this fatal disease. But things were a little different back then. Let's go down the memory lane, shall we? It is believed to have originated in the 1920s, around a century ago. But it was not known and transmission did not involve any noticeable symptoms. It was not until the 1980s when it started to get noted and symptoms were being tied to the disease. The first cases...
The story
This story started when everything was shut down, Even people's heart, life and brain. Everyone was running after food, water and oxygen. And the suddenly everything went back to normal, The party was on, the travellers couldn't resist anymore. Wanderlust they say but stupidity seems now. It only got better and stronger. Covid-19 is back and carries much more than we expected. The story which seemed to be closed has got new pages to it. The sequel has just began with more plots and twists, Which is written by none other than "us". But aren't we the writers? So we could stop this too. The world...
ADOLESCENCE: THE PIVOTAL STAGE OF LIFE.
Adolescence implies the development period of transition from childhood to adulthood, a time of rapid growing independence, a period when young people can be both admirable and difficult to live with. They are admirable because of their courage, tenacity, their boundless curiosity concerning both about themselves and the world at large, their insistence upon using their mind to correlate what they feel with what they do, their relentless questioning of almost everything that enters their range of vision and their equally relentless demand that their questions be answered. They are impatient...
What is 'Pain'?
Somebody asked me, What is pain? Is it a feeling? Or what? I asked, Have you ever touched fire? Got a reply, Never! who would like to be fool and hurt themselves? I then said, That's what pain is like! It hurts you! It hurts you from inside, making your outside painful as well! The pain of 'pain' couldn't be measured! And I also advised, World will always be ready to give you 'pain', But you have to remain strong!
Confusion
Confusion!!!! Confusion is only a sign that your mind is active and thinking, trying to figure out ways to bring something new out of you. Everyone goes through this. It can create a whole mess in your life, or it can also create a whole haven for you just by choosing one option. And choosing that option was difficult for me. I used to think all day. I had so many days. I just went on thinking without any action. I even skipped so many opportunities. I even left jobs after trying, but each step was worth it. Because I understood this, I quit all opportunities and was confused because I didn't...
The world's a putrescent sight.
I open up my eyes in the morning that doesn't feel like morning anymore. The World's full of decay and furore. There's always a tint of depression I carry, why I carry is still not known. I now reminisce over the golden days I enjoyed earlier, why not now, I really can't show. There are ups and downs, troughs and crests, I wear a personality all distressed. Pulling me down, down and down, Into an ocean lacking perception and sound. I am a human being, fettered with the chains of emotion. I overthink, to forget the life of devotion. I am determined on breaking the monotony, the malediction cast...
How Youth in India are battling the second wave of Covid-19 through Social Media.
Technology has been a great enabler for societies during the pandemic. We are at helm of the most powerful tools for connection in modern day history-social media. As ordinary channels of medical assistance fail,Youths of India are using social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp to amplify calls for help and share resource during the crisis. Sometimes it is nice to see the messages of the help you provided has helped someone out but sometimes the hardest thing is telling a patient's family that we couldn't find you a bed. As the second wave of Covid-19 reach its zenith of...
An Excerpt from My COVID Diary
4th May 2021 Tuesday Dear Diary, It’s thirty-seven minutes past one and I’m breathing; others are not. I’ve paused Madan Gowri Anna’s video to sit and write this. He says 24 people have died in one night in Karnataka, where I live. The hospital where they died might not be far away from where I’m staying. I’ve always looked at doctors as though they had the power of Panacea. To know even the doctors couldn’t save them is a harsh blow breaking the tiny bubble I was trying to live in. And the people, they’ve all died trying to breathe. I’m suddenly becoming more and more aware of every...
COVID-19 : A Scattered Today, but a Hopeful Tomorrow
Who knew that a time would come when all of us would be forced to be behind locked doors? Well, nobody could’ve even thought about this in their scariest dreams. But unfortunately, the December of 2019 changed a lot of things for all the seven billion people of this world. The December of 2019 brought a virus into this world which was capable of destroying humanity and more than that, the ability of humans to hope. To be precise about the destructive nature of this virus, since December, millions of people have lost their lives. There is no backing-off from saying that the world hasn’t been...
Mourning Them All
I’ve never had a blank page stare at me before today. It’s been a few minutes since I titled this and sat down to write a threnody to those who’ve died because of the Coronavirus. I can hear my mother shouting at my brother for playing with his cricket bat—a feat that on another day would’ve had her filming the game on her mobile phone. I can’t hear my grandmother from inside my room but that’s because she is quiet except for the occasional quivering breath she exhales. She is usually quiet, it’s nothing new. But today her eyes are watering My father is working on his laptop, constantly...
Silent screams
No, I am not writing a poem today, I am not using my intellect to win your hearts, There is no rhyming scheme nor fancy words, I am going to tell you a tale of my blatant feelings, Of a time which was hard on me, And seemed like beyond any healing. I still remember those tears whose only companion was my pillow, My soft bed which felt like a pit too hollow, The screams inside my head was a chaos too much, Those pink and white pills didn't seem to work as such, My disturbed sleep was witness of angst attacks, The void self just wanted one companion to hark. Thanks, To my best friend who saw the...
Covid-19 and us
Today, whenever I think about my surroundings I find everyone is disturbed, stressed and frightened. People who go to offices and hospitals daily , come back with a fear that they might harm their family. There are patients who are afraid of dying. There are students who knows everything what's going but could help no one including themselves. How does it feel like to be packed in house for almost 15 months? Miserable. For a student who is packed in the house with 5-6 hours of online classes, strained eyes, evening headaches and same routine the next day, it feels miserable. Being in class...
India's Covid Conundrum
Summer. The sun glimmers upon the blooming flowers while sparrows glide across buildings lined up on the side of the street. The sky is free of clouds, its azureness hinting at the warm days ahead. Roads and highways, however, miss the usual bustle. No children are running down the alleys nor the vendors out on their perpetual spree. A deathly stillness enshrouds the air - as if entity has come to a standstill. Distant squeals break in through the lull and die down almost instantaneously, fleets of vans swooshing past like apparitions. What might have happened? Is there a war? An accident...
The Stories of Pain are The Stories of Strenght
If any time you feel anything which is hurting you from inside and leaving you locked inside the walls of despair, it needs to be poured out and talked about. Mental health is important and it needs to be acknowledged by everyone. We young people have always been busy with sticking to the unhealthy definition of life ,which states that getting good marks, sticking to the expectations of others, being insecure, getting successful in life and making money and so on. And sticking to this sour definition of life ,we are not living it we are just passing it with despair. And being surrounded by...
Is Covid-19 gender neutral?
With almost being one & half years of fighting Covid-19 since its emergence in China it has become really significant that we look at gender disparities that have already put women on the margins of society. The pandemic has only exacerbated existing inequalities between women & men. The reason being the long-existing inequalities & the patriarchal mindset. This & many other reasons have made women even more vulnerable to pandemics. While the men are more prone to the virus than women, the woman is the one who is the caretaker both at work & at the home putting them at the frontlines. Also...
SPEAK UP
Mental health. For the past few years, the most happening and listened terms are MENTAL HEALTH. If one need to live peacefully and happily, not only should they focus on physical health but as equally on mental health. Mental health problems may lead to depression, psychological problems, anxiety and many more. When we talk about DEPRESSION - which now a days most of the young people are dealing with - they don't share that they are suffering from it. Actually, they don't know that they are going through depression. These types of young people need moral support from their family and friends...
Mind of a Teen!
Mind of a Teen! Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad, Sometimes a bit Furious, Sometimes Okay! But, still filling the surroundings, with happiness! Finding new ways, creating new ways, for the new world! Having the most busiest minds, In the world! Ideas flourishing, Around and Around! Ideas implementing, Around and Around! This is the, Mind of a Teen! Which everyone needs to understand! They aren't mad, Indeed they are the revolutionaries of this world! This is the, 'Mind of a Teen!'