Tag: suicide

• A conversation with my younger self

  

  (Trigger Warning: Suicide) It’s a lovely morning in Bangalore. I grab a cup of coffee and climb the stairs to reach the terrace. My eyes are focused on the sky. The sky is perfect blue with gray clouds trying to cover it but blown away by strong winds. While I am enjoying this game of…

  Arpita

  June 15, 2020

  Mental Health

  Depression, fiction, lets talk, living with anxiety, living with depression, Mental Health, mental health matters, short story, suicide, you are not alone

• Death

  

  A very old poem I wrote when I was suffering from clinical depression and couldn’t see any hope ahead.   They say life is not a bed of roses You say everyone goes through one But tell me, dear, for once Do you know what it is really like?   To witness life as a…

  Arpita

  May 16, 2020

  Literature, Mental Health

  Anxiety, dark, death, Depression, hopelessness, Mental Health, poem, Poetry, suicide

• The Demon Inside Me

  

  They say everyone has a demon to fight, I have met mine. It sits between my heart and throat, I fear if it wakes up, It won’t let me move. I fear, either it would pierce my heart open or project my inner darkness on the world. Sometimes I fight, often I lose; I sit…

  Arpita

  May 15, 2020

  Featured Work, Literature, Mental Health

  Anxiety, Depression, living with anxiety, living with depression, Mental Health, poem, Poetry, sad, suicide