Slow sickening
For all the sweet talk I do about mental health and acceptance, I am too unaccepting of how I feel sometimes. But don’t peg me for a …
For all the sweet talk I do about mental health and acceptance, I am too unaccepting of how I feel sometimes. But don’t peg me for a …
Today something that mummy said hurt me; it wasn’t anything soul-crushing and it wasn’t something trivial. It was just big enough that a neurotypical daughter would get …
My body is not a temple. The metaphor fails me as an atheist and it fails me in its essence; my body is not a holy, peaceful, …
I never felt settled while I lived in Pune. Unsettled-like one feels when one lives in a girls’ hostel that closes at 9 but one is out …
Let me say something insensitive today: I like this pandemic. Years ago I got dehydrated in my hostel room and there was no way to intimate anyone …
I had a big win yesterday.Mummy was well when she easily could have not been. So I was okay when my chest ache could easily have been …
I feel like— we have entered a dystopian novel, a graphic chapter in a history text book where nothing makes sense & everything is unpredictable, but my …
Is underrated tough. For all the chillcool I believe myself to be, the stigma gets to me. “Why should your body need medicine to be happy?”It doesn’t, …
In one of my dreams, I was swinging from the railing of a terrace. Now I take medicines to “calm my limbic system when I sleep”. What …
It is known, at least to the people close to me, that I go quiet on social media when I am not doing well. I come back …