I feel intensely. It’s not just stress or anxiety but all emotions- joy, anger, hurt, sadness, frustration, irritation et al. There is extensive research on emotion regulation in bipolar and anxiety disorders and there seems to be a connection. People with these disorders tend to be poor at regulating emotions. I have spoken to friends who have mental conditions and they too say they feel intensely. I used to be much worse at regulating emotions than I am today. The…
Often people ask me how they can help someone with a mental illness. This is quite tricky as it varies from person to person and condition to condition. According to me, it is less challenging to help someone who is already undergoing treatment rather than someone who has not accepted that they have a mental illness Helping a person who has not accepted their illness I think that often the person may be aware that they have some mental illness…
The last few weeks, India has seen an unbearable amount of tragedy. Almost everyone I know, including me, has lost someone to Covid 19. Sitting so far away while my country bleeds, makes it harder to be normal and go about things normally. So today instead of writing about what I was originally going to write about, I thought I will address this burden of grief that many of us are feeling. Yesterday someone I knew passed away. It made…