therapy Archives

New York Times’ Modern Love is Lost in Translation: Therapy is Best Delivered in Text

It was with great anticipation that I awaited Modern Love, the Amazon Prime Original show which dramatises, with fictional flourishes, some well-loved Modern Love columns. But I needn’t have held my breath. The show takes everything that makes the column series profound, and flattens the hell out of it.

Karanjeet Kaur July 18, 2016

Gender

Little Women: Slumber Parties Are Where Girls Get Their First Lesson in Sisterhood

The sleepovers that my childhood best friend organised were American pop-culture paradise – we watched rom-coms and discussed boys over a feast of pizza, coke, and ice-cream. But that’s not what they were all about. Our talks steered toward periods and acne and the “burden of our boobs”. What we did not know at the time was that we were creating our first, original feminist safe space.

Sahej Marwah July 5, 2016

POV

How I Became a Past-life Regression Therapist

As a clinical psychologist, you don’t speak about soul, atma, astral bodies, or outer bodies. But past-life regression therapy takes you to the root of your present problems, back to the lifetime where it all began.

Asmita Bakshi||Team June 8, 2016

Health

Covid-19 is Making Me Suicidal. And I’m Not Alone

Covid-19 and the accompanying nation-wide lockdowns across the world, have worsened things for those with mental health issues. I’ve been diagnosed with multiple mental health disorders, and news about my classmate’s suicide made the encroaching darkness of this pandemic more opaque.

Soumya John June 7, 2016

Health

What It’s Like to Live With Permanent Anxiety

I’ve tried medication, sought therapy, read books on how to survive anxiety. Nothing helps. So I’ve learnt to coexist with it. For my permanent companion, this friendship is not getting cancelled anytime soon.

Ayushi Murli April 14, 2016

POV

“Meri Parvarish Mein Kya Kami Reh Gayi Thi?” How to Talk About Therapy With Your Very Desi Family

When I told my parents I needed therapy for my anxiety, I only managed to get an “okay” out of my otherwise very opinionated father. And if “meri parvarish mein kya kami reh gayi thi” had a face, it was my mother’s. In our desi households, hiding the fact that you go to therapy is more important than hiding your bra straps.

Ritu Chandiramani April 12, 2016

First Person

My Father Sexually Abused Me as a Child. But I Still Can’t Hate Him

I was 12 when my father first touched me inappropriately. It took me reading about Lolita, more than a decade later, inciting and luring her stepfather into intimacy to realise that my first experience of any form of sexual pleasure came from my own father.

Vaishnavi March 30, 2016

POV

Can a Chatbot Replace a Therapist? Apparently, It Can

I was adamant not to visit a therapist and then I stumbled upon a “mental health chatbot”. We are a generation that depends on apps for food, shelter, cabs, and sex. So why not therapy?

Yashasvini Mathur March 23, 2016

First Person

I Am Fat Because My Body Houses All My Trauma

I was constantly being told that I needed to lose weight to look good, to find a boyfriend, to be accepted. But staying fat was probably my body’s rebellion against the society that so desperately wanted to change me. My body is a vault that stores all my secrets, all my traumas.

Manjiri Indurkar March 17, 2016