depression

Suicides: a pandemic within a pandemic

The coronavirus disease is one of the most well-documented health crises of recent times, with its correlation to almost every sector in...

Nepal sees spike in suicides during pandemic

Two years ago after going through a bad relationship, a 36-year-old Kathmandu-based doctor started getting suicidal thoughts. During the long months of...

Sonia Awale

Coping with anxiety in new lockdown

An increase in depression, anxiety and low moods could lead to another mental health pandemic

Anjana Rajbhandary

Relationships in the time of corona

Heeding the needs of loved ones in these testing times can help sustain relationships

Anjana Rajbhandary

Nepal’s journalists are also on the frontlines

In the past week, two photojournalists and several reporters at a digital news portal have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The group Photo...

Nepal’s suicide rate vastly underestimated

Nepal’s public health system has no mechanism for recording suicides, and the only statistics about suicides can be found in police records....

Nepal is becoming a nation of net addicts

A couple in Kathmandu, tired of their daughter playing with her mobile all the time, cut off the home internet and hid...

All in the family

The debilitating effects of mental health diseases and the social stigma associated with them are not limited to patients: the lives of...

Ashna comes out of the black

https://youtu.be/3q459iYj9HAAshna Lama flips a black folio. Each page has a stark female figure in white. Some standing up, others sitting, some lying...

It’s all in the mind

 The conflict and earthquake added to Nepal’s hidden epidemic of mental disorderOne-third of Nepalis were already suffering some form of psychiatric disorder,...

Sonia Awale