If a loved one came up to you and trusted you, telling you that they have been having thoughts about ending their life - wha would you do ? Can you bring them help ? Can you bring them to help ?

How does one find help in India ?

Suicidal thoughts are not mere whims - they are a medical emergency and must be treated as such.

Listen to this episode to understand why one might come about to feeling suicidal and how can you help.

Tele Manas helpline - Call 1416 , get help - it's there for you

#worldsuicidepreventionday #youarenotalone

A heart touching story about characters dealing with anxiety with a broad spectrum of reasons possibly faced by ninety percent of humanity today.

The writing is clunky but the story has some excellent plot points and weaving a story seamlessly across so many characters without making it feel so overwhelming is a marvel that always pleases.

Centered around the incident of a bank robbery gone wrong and accidentally turning into a hostage situation is a premise that wants you to jump right in stay glued to see how these troubled people bond together over difficulty and tragedy and choose the cure over all anxieties - companionship.

We talk about how being diagnosed is the first big step and how therapy, environment and friends can help us.

Dr Abhinav tells us that it is possible to recover without therapy, but how therapy takes you from being helped to better equipping you for a depressive episode if it shall occur again.

A mind opening introduction to what the mental health professionals define as depression and what are the possible things that a person diagnosed with clinical depression has to possibly go through.

This episode teaches us to identify depression and touches on the fact that accepting depression if it happens is a major step towards beginning the journey to heal.

This is a special episode - the first cross over episode between Mind Mined & Writing With A Knife, a podcast on great stories, books and authors. This is an attempt to bring forward the world of writing to our listeners to introduce to them realistic yet entertaining portrayals of mental health struggles.

Hyperbole And a Half is a comic autobiographical portrayal in which we get glimpses of the author's life of incidents which sometimes directly and sometimes through very clever metaphors introduces to us the daily challenges involved with depression.

The narration is very funny, and the experiences shared with us feel so authentic, it warms your heart more than it already is towards people who go through mental health struggles as well as makes you more compassionate towards yourself.

A fantastically delivered narrative, Allie Brosh has won our hearts and respect to have come out the way she has through this journey. Keep going, Allie - we will always be cheering for you.

Dr Abhinav talks to us about the programmes being run by the Government of India for mental health advocacy and support for treatment. We learn about initiatives like e-Manas, a telecommunication service that exists to guide a person looking for help.

We talk about the stigma that surrounds the topic of visiting a psychologist or psychiatrist and how we as citizens of India, can each contribute immediately to help build a strong and positively supportive scene for mental health advocacy, acceptance of patients in society & greater access to help and treatment.

We often find it hard to understand how we may differentiate between what we may commonly understand as a " bad mood " or " just a phase " or a matter accept of

This episode is for those of us who have been trying to understand - do I ( or someone who I love ) need to visit a mental health professional ?

What is loneliness exactly ? Is there a difference between choosing to be alone and feeling lonely ?

At what point does one need to seek help ?

What can one do to stop feeling lonely ?

We discuss all of this and more.

Dr Abhinav talks about the way Mental Health is perceived and acknowledged in India. We talk about the treatment gap and address the most basic notions around mental health