Experiencing bipolar disorder
Jagannath Lamichhane writes about the person’s experience suffering from Bipolar disorder in today’s The Kathmandu Post. Bipolar disorder as characterized by mood swings oscillating between mania and depression is very damaging to a person’s mental health which is portrayed nicely here in the article through personal conversation. We all should know the prime importance of […]
Insufficient services; A hurdle for Autistic kids
– Kritika Lamsal It is one of those memories that will haunt me until I am nothing but ashes. I remember the day vividly, as if it were yesterday. I stand in the living room in my white kurthi with an earring in my hand and the other one dangling from my left ear. The […]
Bipolar day celebrated in Kathmandu!
Patan, 26 March 2015 Kripa Sigdel Nepal Mental Health Foundation (NMHF) celebrated Bipolar Day today at Yala Maya Kendra. The program lasted for 2 hours with presentations by 3 panelists and interactions in the presence of more than 30 participants who are active in the mental health. The program first initiated by Mr. Jagannath Lamichhane, […]
Another Suicide…Whom to Blame??
The Result of 11 grade was out just last day and today I heard a boy committed suicide because he failed the exam. Whom to blame? Education System, family, the boy himself or something else?
Mind Matters
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS! The Kathmandu Post has an editorial (September 10) which we must ponder about it: Last week, Hari Sada, a native of Udayapur district fell off a six-storey building in Qatar and died. In a cruel twist of fate, on Monday, the very day his dead body arrived in Nepal, his 24-year-old wife, […]
Let’s talk about Mental Wellbeing
Let’s talk about Mental Wellbeing … – Sujan Shrestha It’s a good thing that people are getting gradually aware about mental health. Many articles and news reports regarding mental health have surged up in recent days. But our approach has been more a conventional one which focuses on the treatment rather than the prevention of […]