Category Archives: Mental Health

I doubt I’ve ever felt so alone and lonely as I have in the past year. Being a person who was used to socialising and hanging out with freinds, being alone is a very scary concept. At the same time trying to manage new subjects and university was another struggle I faced and still do. […]

Exam season is the time that brings people closer together due to sheer fear of failing. Some people enjoy exams and those people are aliens. I’m classified under the large umbrella of people who hate exams. They bring unnecessary stress to an already stressed individual. I’m not the kind of person who cries or had […]

“Men Aren’t Attracted to Broken Women”, I recall hearing this close to the time it happened. I heard it again when he touched me for the first time but only it was much quieter; in my head. I wondered how I was ever going to put myself back together; explain to the boy I loved […]

2020 changed my worldview. When I spent my pre-teen years lost in the worlds of apocalypse movies, I never for a second imagined I would experience anything remotely close to that. What. An. Idiot. 2020 was meant to be a new beginning for me. New school, new friends. But it turned out more like “new […]

Trigger Warning: Suicide/Self-harm/Eating disorder/Sexual abuse Throughout my childhood I’ve been endlessly body shamed especially because I started binge eating since I was 4-5 to cope with my emotions, and it later developed into body dysmorphia that I still have to this day. I was beaten in unspeakable ways. The people who I thought were supposed […]

I remember always being uncomfortable talking to people and not being comfortable in my own skin. I used to be extremely introverted and constantly worried about whether people see me as good enough or not. This insecurity caused me to miss out on a lot of opportunities in life and it gives me joy to […]

Trigger Warning: Mental Health/ Suicide/ Self – harm.  I often find myself wondering what my life would have been like if I was a bit more “normal”. Whether it would be calmer or more chaotic, or whether I’d even fit into the strange bracket of being “normal” anyway. I am now 22 years old, and […]

My name is Meena and I’ll be 78 years old in December 2021. In my life, I’ve seen many things and many changes but 2020 was a time when I felt completely isolated. All my life I’ve been blessed with the company of people. I enjoy meeting new people and sharing simple conversations. 2020 was […]

The lockdown wasn’t easy on me or my kids. I have 3 children – 10 years , 7 years and 7 months – age when the whole of United Arab Emirates went into a lockdown in March 2020. I was so confident that it will end in a week or two. And that schools will […]

We celebrate every New Year’s Eve with mad anticipation hoping that the year ahead is spectacular and magically somehow delivers everything we want (like as if it were just another Amazon type portal). However, a few days in and we discover, almost expectedly, that the year is no different from any other. In that sense […]