Covid-19 Resource for Self Help Activities
The uncertainty of the Pandemic has created problems for us that we’ve never faced before. To make things more difficult, our social circles may not be physically accessible. In such a scenario, finding ways to comfort and help ourselves becomes…
(Invisible) Essential Workers
We’ve been conditioned to give importance to mental labour over physical labour, without realising that we all heavily rely on both. In times like the Covid-19 Pandemic in India, this reliance becomes even more apparent to us. Our survival has…
Netflix Can Help
A pack of chips, a decadent chocolate and the inevitable and unchanging solace of Netflix. For the past 365 days this has been my evening routine. The companionship of Tiger King, during the early days of lockdown, to now binging…
Vicarious Trauma
Vicarious trauma is defined as indirect trauma that can occur when we are exposed to difficult or disturbing images and stories second-hand. Usually seen among professions like the police force, fire-fighters, mental health workers, or doctors and nurses, this secondary…
Are You Doom-Scrolling?
In 2020, I caught on to a new habit. My phone became my newspaper…and for valid reasons. I believed that TV news gave me either insufficient or inaccurate information about what’s going on. So I took things into my own…
Conflicts During Lockdown?
It has been over a year and counting since India went into lockdown. For all, this has been an unexpected change, some like it but most struggle with being confined to their homes. Working from home, sharing space with family/friends…
Locked Out: Extroverts in Lockdown
For someone who is an extrovert and loves interacting with people, this lockdown has been hard. Even if it is something as trivial as missing physical interactions, hugs, the sound of a room buzzing with conversations and laughter. If lockdowns…
Just A Wave
Most of us have been able to sense the anxiety around us. Sneezing, coughing, no masks or no sanitizers are making us uneasy all over again. March and April seem to be the months of doom. If you’re saying “Stop!…
Pandemic Guilt
Remember the lockdown? The two week vacation which turned into a year long ordeal? What we now call our ever changing “new normal”. Well right at the start of the lockdown, something catastrophic happened, something that would change the way…
Things We (Didn’t Realise We) Learnt In 2020
Let’s say it out loud already, 2020 was hard! Our phones kept pinging with anxiety inducing news, it would not end and it just seemed to go downhill from there on. We were always on high alert, our bodies always…
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