Type: Resource:

A collection of pieces

A guest resource written by Chetna Iyer
Below are a few short pieces written by me on the theme of mental health. Each piece is accompanied by an image, and are a part of my social media feed (Instagram and Facebook) for which they were originally created. Each image has been personally created in the form of an visual artwork or a photograph. Hope you like it!
O K A Y

There’s no answer to whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to be merely okay. On some days, that’s all we have. We have to make do. Okay is not necessarily a comfortable space. For me, it definitely isn’t. It is weird, platonic, a straight line.

But there are those amongst us, who find themselves stuck in dark spirals, who are struggling, caught in quicksand. Being okay could be a purposeless luxury. If you are there, fella, we want you to be O K A Y. You are valuable, and worthy. You’ll make it. You are not alone. Light and warmth await you. Choose a semicolon, not a full stop.

Collection Of Pieces

B R E A T H E

One finds themselves increasingly agitated, worried, overthinking, underestimating self, undervaluing self love, self care, hustling, doubting, overwhelmed, full of How and What-ifs, more often than one would like. To you, I want to say this today.

Pause.

B R E A T H E.

You owe it to yourself first, more than anyone or anything else. For all the causes you have chosen, you need to be okay. Find spaces in the chaos, pause.

Take a deep, cleansing breath. B R E A T H E

T H I S

On some days, T H I S is what it feels like. I don’t know how to describe the feeling. I don’t have a name to it. This is probably how my mind will look like, at that time. This is how many places it’ll be. How many different things I’ll be feeling.

My mind is allowed to look like this.

I will be kind to my mind.

Collection Of Pieces

L E T G O

When you won’t let go of all that is holding you back, but desperately wanting to heal…

How.

Collection Of Pieces

You May Also Want To Read

An ode to my past self | Image

An ode to my past self

A guest post. I’m sorry For not being creative enough Expressive enough Loud enough...

January 14, 2019 Read More

MhWHY | Image

MhWHY

A guest post. Over the past year, I was working with women situationed in a fragile, perilous situation, one that people without privilege so often find themselves in....

March 21, 2019 Read More

A bright red sticky note | Image

A bright red sticky note

A guest post. The world i see is a dull shade of grey that covers the walls of a sad and lonely hospital hallway leading to the morgue....

March 6, 2019 Read More

The world is big enough for all of us: Social Media and Mental Health | Image

The world is big enough for all of us: Social Media and Mental Health

A guest post. Social media dominates our lives more than we think it does....

January 15, 2019 Read More

Introducing the Buddy System by The Plane Jar | Image

Introducing the Buddy System by The Plane Jar

A guest post. Under our Mental Health Campaign, we provide aid to people in many ways such as counselling, support group and the buddy system....

March 7, 2019 Read More

You already have the skills, intentions, and the know-how to care for your mental health. Learn how we can help you discover them 🙂 Find Counsellors.
Support Groups & Sharing Spaces.
Self Care Events.
Stories & Resources.
Helplines.