Category: mental-health
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Anhedonia in Depression: Why You Can’t Feel Joy and How to Heal
When I was diagnosed with depression, I remember thinking it was no big deal—after all, it was just grief and sadness. Little did I know, depression was multi-faceted. It came as a package with its second cousins—anhedonia and personality changes. I remember how much alive I felt before this “madness”…
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Hey, have you seen my identity anywhere??
The sense of having lost my identity is what troubled me the most during my depression. It happened after I lost my mother. The internal conflicts about who I am and the questions I’d ask to find my identity only made it worse. What I should be doing, what I…
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The inner child’s cry for help
When we talk about healing we mostly talk about healing from trauma that we remember. We believe we have become a different person and the traumatic event changed our personalities. But are we certain that the person we were before, was free from all the trauma and was not a…
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Letter from a survivor.
My mornings are interesting. I mean, nothing special about them except for how different each one is. They range from waking up with a sigh, glad that the clock struck 7 and I don’t have to lay in bed, wide awake, with thoughts I would rather not own to jumping…
Dear mind, I mind. 