Bullying is harmful and we need to stop brushing it under the rug. Bullied, assaulted, abused, I saw no way out, self harm and suicide attempts followed.
In the past few days, media has reported about two suicides from two different cities bringing to attention the difficulties that members of the LGBTQ community are facing.
DrSafeHands and Solidarity Foundation have teamed up together and launched a pan-India free helpline service for LGBTQ people to provide mental health related support and counselling.
A lesbian couple in Gujarat committed suicide by tying themselves with a dupatta and jumping into the Sabarmati river, after throwing a three-year old child of ... Read More...
Inter- and intra-community dialogue and team building activity can be considered to enhance communication and supportive relationship in the LGBTQ community.
Chester Bennington helped me get through that tough teenage period which knew of abuse and self-denial and hardly of love. Hearing someone acknowledge that, acknowledge the pain told me I was not alone.
we need to talk; about our feelings and the hurt we feel, the insecurities, the invalidity we experience, the constant pressures of an oppressive heteronormative as well as a homonormative society and sub-culture which like a ruthless predator gets over us and takes away our well being, peace and happiness
My phone was taken away from me, my grandfather wasn’t talking to me while my sister and mother were behaving rudely with me. I took out a rope and tied it to the ceiling fan.
Mood swings, depression, anxiety, all of these affect you in an invisible way. I am yet to accept myself this way, to be comfortable with being a psychologically ill patient requiring treatment. But yes, I am consciously trying.