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...
depression
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...
Coping with anxiety in new lockdown
An increase in depression, anxiety and low moods could lead to another mental health pandemic
Relationships in the time of corona
Heeding the needs of loved ones in these testing times can help sustain relationships
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,...
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