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Mental health has often been looked at with distrust; if we cannot “see” the problem that exists, can it really exist? With the pandemic, this visual might have changed. According to Women and Child Development Ministry, there were more than two lakh distressed calls registered by the government’s helpline from April 2020 to June 2020 when emergency lockdown due to Covid-19 was announced in India.
From the initial scramble to get home before the lockdown was announced to an acceptance of the situation, the few students who remain in Delhi’s hostels find ways to cope and connect
Calmness lies in small things. Human beings are resilient, so we will bounce back.” - Arvinder J Singh, director of the Ashoka Centre for Well Being Are you finding it difficult to resist panic buying yet another bag of rice on anxiety-fuelled, quick grocery runs during this lockdown? You are not alone! “When there is so much uncertainty, you feel a loss of control. So you latch on to anything that makes it seem like you have control again — such as buying,” says Arvinder J Singh, director of the Ashoka Centre for Well Being.
A public art installation on mental health awareness 'Moving Out to Go Within by nine Ashoka University students, under the guidance of designer Sumant Jayakrishnan will be on display at STIR Gallery here from February 2 to April 15. The installation is being promoted by the India Art Fair.
Ashoka University’s Ashoka Centre for Well-Being (ACWB) in collaboration with Red Balloon’s Young People for Change put together a week-long residential workshop to initiate conversations around mental health among the youth.
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