mental health
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There’s no manual for this. No chapter in a self-help book explains how to keep your heart beating when your entire world is trying to stop it. No therapist’s worksheet can prepare you for the sound of a shell landing down the street, for the ghost of a missing friend, for the specific, gutting sound Read more
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I entered my first mental health space out of survival, not choice. It was late in high school. My essays had turned grim—soaked with suicidal undertones that, to me, felt like casual honesty but to others flagged danger. My English teacher, Ms. Singh, stepped in. I will never forget her. She quite literally saved my Read more
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For much of my life, I didn’t believe I was allowed to call myself depressed. The image I held of depression had been shaped by media, school, and Western portrayals: someone lying in bed all day, unshowered, crying, unable to function. That version of depression was extreme, visible, and loud—and because I didn’t match it, Read more
Diaspora Dreams 