All eyes on the apex court
Next week among matters of import, the Supreme Court will take up a review petition of Imdad Ali, a man convicted of murder who has been awaiting his fate on…
Mind games
YEARS ago, while buying provisions, I came across a man engaged in a heated conversation with the shopkeeper. He was complaining about how his latest business venture had failed. “It’s…
Mental illness during Covid-19
IN my last column on the physical health of those with mental illness, I talked about evidence that showed people with mental illness had higher physical morbidity and early mortality as compared…
Understanding suicide
“No one commits suicide because they want to die”… “Because they want to stop the pain”. Tiffanie DeBartolo WHILE late Asim Jamil’s tragic suicide is fresh in minds, it is…
Physical health of mentally ill
“Our bodies are gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” — William Shakespeare READERS might find it surprising to know that people with mental illness live less long than…
Making mental health a priority
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes World Mental Health Day in the month of October every year. There are endless numbers of calamities, natural and human-made, that are wreaking havoc…
Kashmir: a sea of traumatized humanity
From a tourist’s lens, being born in Kashmir is a blessing to be cherished. To a Kashmiri, however, it equates to a lifelong imprisonment. From the moment a Kashmiri is…
The untreated pandemic
Frozen. Stalled. Broken down. Hazed. Fogged. Jammed. We are neither talking about the car engine nor the weather; we are talking about the body engine and weather inside the mind.…
Demystifying suicide
It is said that “the person who commits suicide, dies once. Those left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive those terrible moments and understand the reason why?” During…
Human rights & mental health
A DECADE ago, world-renowned psychiatrist and medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman termed the standard of mental healthcare across the world a ‘failure of humanity’. He noted that the worse deficiencies of…
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