Personal Stories

To everyone else, my story was a story of mental health victory. But it wasn’t, and I knew it, deep down inside. To tell you the full story, let’s travel back in time. To the year of 2016. A time when I was so focused on “overcoming” my social anxiety. Seeing my anxiety as a […]

A few years ago, I got self-admitted into a psych ward. It was not a fun experience, far from the help I sought. Facilities were poor & patients weren’t treated as people. It was basically a minimum security lockup where the medical officers (MOs) spent their nights playing DOTA while we slept. It was Ramadan.