When R had suicidal thoughts and a feeling of hopelessness, she finally sought help and was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety disorder. Read on to find out how she coped with her illness and how it relates to chronic pain due to migraines…
And QUIT SMOKING. Akhileshwar Sahay, a seasoned industry veteran, has been living with bipolar disorder for the last 2 decades. In this interview, he talks about his troubled journey with multiple chronic illnesses including COPD, Depression,…
Vidya Heble has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and now writes and edits from her home near Mumbai which she shares with several cats. She shares her daily battle with depression and suicidal thoughts for over a decade and the…
Priya had for years allowed hypothyroidism and its related issues to get the better of her, till she finally turned around and decided to make lifestyle changes and battle it head on. This is the story of how she emerged a winner.
Early Symptoms…
Jack (name changed to protect identity) is a 60 year old man in Singapore who struggled with reactive depression and is now on the way to recovery.
Background
Jack was working and living a fairly uneventful life with his wife and 3 daughters, until…
A year ago, Anand (name changed to protect identity) might easily have been any of the quiet pleasant young corporate professionals that one meets at work, or one of the family men that one sees with their kids in a mall. Except, behind the normalcy…
MHR, as she prefers to be referred to as, has been battling Behcet’s Syndrome, a rare auto-immune disease for the last 17 years. Having been through various stages of pain, depression and hopelessness, body image issues she has tried ayurveda and…
Recovering from depression isn’t easy, but not impossible. Shubhrata Prakash, an officer with the Indian Revenue Service currently on a sabbatical in Bangkok, who is finally on the road to recovery after an excruciating period of depression, exults…
Debabrata Roy, 49 is affected with early Parkinson’s disease which has turned his life and world upside down. He talks about the inevitability of the progression of this dreaded ailment.
When were you diagnosed?
Two years back, I was diagnosed with…