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6 min

Let's Talk About Mental Health with Young British Asians

Every single person has a mental health, just as we do a physical health and I'd personally like to see the conversation shifted to...

balraj921

5 min

What is Making Young British Asians Want to Dedicate their Time and Energy to Competitive Sports?

Whether I win or lose, I always remind myself that I’ve come a long way and still have a long way to go.

jathushaa

5 min

Growing Up with Learning Disabilities in the South Asian Community

This feeling of humiliation stemmed from the toxic views in our South Asian community that having a learning disability was taboo.

Sharlenee

3 min

The Authentic Self: How Well Do You Know Yourself?

There are a million different versions of myself out there - yet are any of those versions the real me?

Lakshan Chitrakumaran

5 min

Fight Club: Why I Choose to Fight with My Parents

I would choose to fight with my parents over and over again - would you fight over something you don't care about?

Kathesa Kathirkamarasa

2 min

Accepting Your Mental Limit

In a world where how you should feel is idealised, our mental limit can be forgotten to exist and difficult to accept.

Nishani Jeyapalan

7 min

Bottle of Grief: How I’ve Learnt to Cope with Loss

I had completely caged my grief and shoved it to the back of my mind, and a few dark thoughts later, I knew I had to do something about it.

Kumaran Ragupathy

3 min

The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

When we put these assumptions aside and instead embrace the unknown, we can achieve breakthroughs.

Fahmida Miah

4 min

Lockdown, Literature and a Look into Loneliness

With already one month of self-isolation behind me, here are four works I have read so far, all touching upon loneliness in insightful ways.

Ramya Jegatheesan

4 min

How Not To Be Productive: the Importance of Doing Nothing in Self-Isolation

I felt that I was being given an opportunity, a space to do more, and I was squandering it. There was so much I could do. I did none of them

Nathikka

3 min

Lockdown Therapy: Healing with Colour

Isn’t it beautiful how people can express themselves through art, to create something from nothing and produce something that is so unique?

itsjustadraft

5 min

Stay Home, Stay Safe

3 things you need to know about Coronavirus.

Shiri

4 min

How We Can Beat the Stigma of Mental Health

Sadly what I often get is "but why do you feel like this?". Trust me, if I knew the answer to that, I would have already solved it.

Sundar

3 min

How to survive an attack

If a man wielding a knife is charging at you on the street, what would you do?

Shiri

3 min

Am I ovary-reacting?

What I don’t understand is why, as Tamils we celebrate initially getting periods. Only, from then onwards, it suddenly becomes a ...

Victor

3 min

How To Find Your Fit This New Year

The New Year does not magically restart anything, so avoid postponing any goals based on our position around the sun

Sinthujan

3 min

How Toothbrushing got me Digging Deeper...

it still came to me as a surprise when a patient of mine told me he had not brushed his teeth in nearly six months

pirianka.louis

2 min

Rice : Curry | The Unwritten Ratio

How many of you have asked your parents to buy you McDonald's when you were younger and got the good old -no, there's rice and curry at home

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