300 million people suffer from depression and mood related disorders at any point in time.
These conditions include:
Depression
General Anxiety
Panic Disorder
Self-Harm / Suicide
Substance Abuse/Addiction
Survivors of Child Abuse and Sexual Violence may have one or more of these conditions as well. This is a direct effect of the trauma they have gone through.
The impact of these conditions will likely spill beyond your suffering into your work, relationships. In some situations, life may feel overwhelming. With the support of loved ones and professional help, you can learn to manage your mental health and indeed thrive!
Matt Haig is an author, famous for telling his story about his fight with depression in an engaging way. We review his book "Reasons to Stay Alive" to understand his battle and how he manages his depression.
This Australian non-profit focusses on depression, anxiety, suicide and grief and loss. We particularly like their sub-page for youngsters (12-25 of age) which might be useful for those in India for that age group.
Banyan runs residences and care facilities and provides counselling for mental health issues in Chennai and interior Tamil Nadu. It also runs BALM - an educational facility for training social workers, therapists and counsellors.
Very well (pun intended) resource website, covering a host of topics on mental health such as Depression, PTSD, Addiction as well as general psychology and self improvement.
This is an educational site offering courses on mental health amongst others. Targeted at the therapists and some clients who can pay, great value when they are on sale. We are not affiliated and do not receive any commissions from them.
A powerful blog/website about suicide and loss/grief. Sarah Kane was an accomplished poet and playwright at an young age and died by suicide. A reminder that world success or failure has nothing to do with this.
The good old professor at University of California Los Angeles runs this website with a lot of neuroscience based information. Author of "Buddha's Brain" - a great book on neuroscience based on mediation and our habits - we hope to review this book soon in our podcast.
THUNAI
