depression Category
How to make an espresso
Posted on December 19, 2019 2 Comments
How to make an espresso: Not really about making coffee.
Life is Suffering
Posted on September 6, 2018 6 Comments
There’s a much misunderstood but oft quoted Hindu/Buddhist tenet that life is suffering.
A Day In the Life Of: Parenting Depression
Posted on March 17, 2017 2 Comments
CONTENT NOTE: Discussion of depression ahead. If you recognise yourself or someone you love in anything in this post, please reach out to mental health services in your area. Some non-emergency services listed at the end. The Greeting. “Hey! How was school?” “Shit. As always.” Breathe. It might just be a flippant “shit” this time. […]
New year blues
Posted on January 10, 2016
Happy new year! Which path are you taking for 2016? So here we are, at the end of the first week of the new year, and I’m already talking about depression. Unfathomable, right? Or is it really? After all, we have just come out the other side of effectively two months of US holidays.
To My Father On His Birthday
Posted on October 1, 2015 8 Comments
My dearest Achan, Eighteen years have passed and more, since Death took you by the hand and led you away. That moment of realisation that you had departed is still so clear, so breath-stealing these many years on. And yet. And yet I can no longer remember the exact quality of your voice, the timbre of […]
Her Honest Life: You’re Lucky If They Act Out
Posted on August 5, 2014
This post from the extraordinary Ijeoma Oluo deals with her personal experience of nearly losing her beautiful, clever, loving, sensitive son. This is a story we all need to read.
Asha Rajan 